Speaker 1: Coming up on this exclusive edition of Booth Review. I'm
Speaker 1: Bram Weinstein with London Fletcher. Where just watched the Commander's
Speaker 1: practice against the Jets.
Speaker 2: What stood out to you?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, obviously I wanted to watch the quarterback
Speaker 3: Jayden Daniels and he made some plays. Also, man my Man,
Speaker 3: Dianmy Brown, he was out there looking good. And you
Speaker 3: know the defense. I love those guys defensive front. They
Speaker 3: were in the backfield of the New York Jets. Make
Speaker 3: us of plays. I love watching what I saw, Love
Speaker 3: what I saw in practice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're worried about that pass rush. You saw it
Speaker 1: today in a first go against somebody. It's something we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about today on Booth Review. Welcome into
Speaker 1: this exclusive preview edition of Booth Review. I'm Bram Weinstein,
Speaker 1: play by play voice of the Commanders with the legendary
Speaker 1: linebacker London Fletcher joins me in the booth for all
Speaker 1: of the games. Will be joined by Logan Pulsen this year.
Speaker 1: But this year, London, you and I are going to
Speaker 1: be doing a podcast together. We're doing it today off
Speaker 1: of the joint practice with the Jets. So it's our
Speaker 1: little warm up. This is our preseason for the regular season,
Speaker 1: I'm doing a podcast together because we're gonna be doing
Speaker 1: one every Monday after every game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking forward to this, you know, just to
Speaker 3: be able to kind of review the game, you know,
Speaker 3: talk about what we see from our dvantage point in
Speaker 3: the booth. And it's exciting, man, you know, the whole
Speaker 3: podcast epidemic, so to speak. I'm looking forward to doing
Speaker 3: this with you. I know we're gonna have a lot
Speaker 3: of fun.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. August twenty sixth as we're going
Speaker 1: to debut the first official one, which will be after
Speaker 1: the last preseason games. We'll be getting into cuts. We'll
Speaker 1: have seen all of the preseason, but we wanted to
Speaker 1: do a special preview one because we're up in New
Speaker 1: York with the team. We just got to go see
Speaker 1: the joint practice today against the Jets. Unfortunately, the weather
Speaker 1: was awful. It was pouring the first hour of it
Speaker 1: and then drizzled throughout the rest of it. That led
Speaker 1: to the Jets not even putting Aaron Rodgers out there,
Speaker 1: so we didn't get to see Aaron Rodgers against the defense.
Speaker 1: Let me just get your general takeaway of what kind
Speaker 1: of stood out to you today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the first thing you mentioned the weather,
Speaker 3: and with it being a consistent rain throughout the practice,
Speaker 3: at times pouring rain, I thought ball security was great,
Speaker 3: you know, all things considered. I didn't see a lot
Speaker 3: of balls on the ground, a lot of fumbles or
Speaker 3: drop pass and things like that center QB exchange. Those
Speaker 3: are things that you concern yourself with anytime you have
Speaker 3: weather issues. So from that standpoint, I thought, I thought
Speaker 3: the teams, both teams handled that well.
Speaker 1: Just give me your general sense of Jayden Daniels. What
Speaker 1: did you see today and what was the first time
Speaker 1: he's been up against another opponent.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, just looking at the way they started
Speaker 3: off the practice. They started that period off with like
Speaker 3: a seven on seven period and they were going against
Speaker 3: a lot of man man coverage against the New York
Speaker 3: Jets and Jay and I thought was on time and
Speaker 3: on target with a lot of the passes. He had
Speaker 3: a beautiful deep ball throw down the sideline to the
Speaker 3: dam Brown and Diamy made a one hand to catch
Speaker 3: the ball. Accuracy, the ball play where you wanted it
Speaker 3: to be, I thought him And first pass was to
Speaker 3: you know, zach Ertz. Nice pass, Zach has been a
Speaker 3: great target for Jayden. You can see him being like
Speaker 3: a quarterback's best friend. Him and his knowledge of this
Speaker 3: offense is starting to shine a show.
Speaker 1: So I was.
Speaker 3: I was impressed with the way Jayden performed, especially in
Speaker 3: that let's call a seven h seventh period where there's
Speaker 3: no pass rus things like that, where you truly just
Speaker 3: working on your chemistry and your time in with your receivers.
Speaker 1: When it got into eleven on eleven, at least early,
Speaker 1: from what I saw, and I saw honestly, more of
Speaker 1: they were on separate fields, So I actually saw more
Speaker 1: of the first team defense than I did of the
Speaker 1: first team offense. But from what I did see from
Speaker 1: Daniels and from what I kind of heard and gleaned
Speaker 1: from everyone else who was paying attention, the offense collectively
Speaker 1: as a whole had a hard time moving the ball
Speaker 1: here early. Again, that goes back to I think the
Speaker 1: offensive line is shuffling things around. This is all new,
Speaker 1: and we had an opportunity to talk to Cliff Kingsbury,
Speaker 1: you know, a few days ago, and he is open
Speaker 1: saying we're not gonna show anything, right, Yeah, we're doing
Speaker 1: And I think that that's part of this here, So
Speaker 1: I wonder how you view that knowing they're not really
Speaker 1: they don't want to show anybody what they want to
Speaker 1: be a secret. I don't I don't blame them. No
Speaker 1: one knows what their formations are gonna be, No one
Speaker 1: knows what kind offense they're gonna run.
Speaker 3: But you saw, and I don't want to say too
Speaker 3: much because I did see a couple of things where
Speaker 3: you can tell, Okay, this is something that they're saving
Speaker 3: for Tapa Bay Week. One that you know, I saw
Speaker 3: that we hadn't seen out in Ashburn, especially with the
Speaker 3: fans being out there. So there was some wrinkles that
Speaker 3: they did offensively that you can say, Okay, I really
Speaker 3: like this, this aspect that I don't want to share
Speaker 3: too much on the podcast. You know, you and I
Speaker 3: can talk off air, but when you look at it
Speaker 3: is really about just being able to compete against another team,
Speaker 3: compete and making sure is he making the right decision
Speaker 3: and not just him, but the quarterback in general. Are
Speaker 3: they making the right decision? Does the pass pro are
Speaker 3: they are they calling making the right cause I saw
Speaker 3: Tyler biadis you know, making making the right calls from
Speaker 3: a from a protection standpoint, You want to see those
Speaker 3: guys making sure they're operating in the right manner.
Speaker 2: And doing the things that they need to do.
Speaker 3: And you know they know the offensive line is what
Speaker 3: it is in terms of injuries right now, So I
Speaker 3: think from nest standpoint there, they're happy with that aspect of.
Speaker 1: These practices feel and most of the players and coaches
Speaker 1: seem to say it these days, the way the preseason
Speaker 1: is treated more important. It's a better learning environment. There's
Speaker 1: more corrections to be made out of it.
Speaker 3: You want to you want to have mistakes happen in
Speaker 3: practice or corrections happen in practice as opposed to a game.
Speaker 3: You know a great, great coach, Hall of Fame coach
Speaker 3: that I play for, Dick lebau. You know, a lot
Speaker 3: of times when you're in the practices, especially if if
Speaker 3: you're on defense and you give up a play, something
Speaker 3: happens and you know, everybody, all the coach are in
Speaker 3: the uproar and things like that. Coach Leboul was like, Man,
Speaker 3: I'd much rather have those things happen right now unless
Speaker 3: get them corrected that happened on Sunday or doing a
Speaker 3: real game. And I'm sure you know you're not happy
Speaker 3: when they happened on a practice field at that moment,
Speaker 3: but it's an opportunity to coach, correct and not just
Speaker 3: correct the guys who you know may have had the
Speaker 3: situation that made a mistake on the field, but you're
Speaker 3: also coaching their backups and other guys as.
Speaker 2: Well, so you know things that happened.
Speaker 3: You're happy when they when you're able to have those
Speaker 3: mistakes happen and correct them up, coach them up.
Speaker 1: And I know that everybody was paying attention to Jayden
Speaker 1: obviously because they wanted to see him first go against
Speaker 1: an opponent, But we had talked to Kingsbury a couple
Speaker 1: days earlier and he had pointed out to us he
Speaker 1: really actually wanted to focus on the run game. He
Speaker 1: wanted to see it specifically against I think this defensive
Speaker 1: front because I wanted to see how they would handle
Speaker 1: against something like this. I don't know if you got
Speaker 1: anything out of the practice there, because I know it
Speaker 1: was important to the team to see how the run
Speaker 1: game was functioning as they had towards the regular season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's still a work in progress. You know, the
Speaker 3: ruck I thought, you know, Austin Eckler, he popped a
Speaker 3: couple of times, and b rob showed his toughness broke tackles,
Speaker 3: even though it's not they weren't tackling tackling, but there
Speaker 3: were some times where Yeah, but the defender may have
Speaker 3: been there and tried to like thud him up, knowing
Speaker 3: b Robb he was breaking those tackles. So you like
Speaker 3: to see the physicality of the running backs and those
Speaker 3: things like that. Anytime you work in with a office
Speaker 3: line that hasn't had a lot of time together, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have some mishaps that take place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting with the two of them. I didn't
Speaker 1: see be Robin Eckler. I didn't see a lot of
Speaker 1: them today, But how they're going to be utilized together
Speaker 1: is going to be very interesting. How they utilize their
Speaker 1: formations will be very interesting. And I'm with you on Eckler. Actually,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I saw a ton of it today.
Speaker 1: It was wet and it was sloppy outside today. But
Speaker 1: he looks as quick as he's been in the past,
Speaker 1: like we've seen now that they've started to ramp up
Speaker 1: to more of a game speed. And I still like,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna ask you about this in a minute,
Speaker 1: because I haven't seen game speed yet through since the
Speaker 1: started camp, and I see it again today. But when
Speaker 1: it gets up to a certain point, you're starting to
Speaker 1: see the Eckler that quick twitchy cuts that like kind
Speaker 1: of made him what he was with the Chargers. You're
Speaker 1: seeing that here now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a good time.
Speaker 3: You mentioned, you know, wanting to see game speed or
Speaker 3: haven't not seen it yet. You can tell that the
Speaker 3: coaches really emphasize, hey, we want to we don't want
Speaker 3: to have a bunch of fistic cuffs and fights, and
Speaker 3: we don't want the inticity so high that we're not
Speaker 3: able to accomplish what we want to accomplish. But there
Speaker 3: was some physicality that took place at the line of
Speaker 3: scrimmages and things like that, and I saw guys running
Speaker 3: to the football saw you know, that's what you want
Speaker 3: to see. Definitely on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3: You mentioned Eckler, there were some times where where he
Speaker 3: just he's he's he's stronger than what he looks, and
Speaker 3: we've seen videos of him in the He's not a
Speaker 3: big guy, but he breaks a lot of tackles because
Speaker 3: he's just he's stronger than what he appears to be.
Speaker 3: They're gonna utilize him and be Robin in a variety
Speaker 3: of different ways. Both of them obviously can run the
Speaker 3: ball out of the backfield, but also being able to
Speaker 3: catch the ball and being able to do some things
Speaker 3: in that manner. I'm looking forward to seeing seeing how
Speaker 3: his offense operates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the other couple of guys that really just
Speaker 1: stood out to me through camp and to this point,
Speaker 1: they went and drafted Luke McCaffrey. But Alamode alamidez A
Speaker 1: Kias has really stood out here as someone who has
Speaker 1: really emerged I think into camp to the point where
Speaker 1: forget just making the team, he may have a prominent
Speaker 1: role if you were watching closely, and today he was
Speaker 1: featured in the offense today as well, So I think
Speaker 1: he's a name to watch here.
Speaker 2: He's a VET.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised considering depth at the position group. I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised that he's an easy ad to the fifty three,
Speaker 1: but I think he might be a bigger role play
Speaker 1: if I'm guessing right now, by the time we get
Speaker 1: around to the regular season, he's got a bigger role
Speaker 1: in this team than I think people might have thought
Speaker 1: when they first brought him.
Speaker 3: In here, well, he continued to show up and continues
Speaker 3: to make plays, and you want you want that to happen.
Speaker 3: When he was signed as a free agent back in April,
Speaker 3: you know, it was kind of an under under the
Speaker 3: radar sign and only had what ten catches a season ago,
Speaker 3: and and Philly, so he's like, okay, not not that
Speaker 3: big of a signup. But then you continue to watch
Speaker 3: the practices and he's the one who continued to show up,
Speaker 3: continues to make plays. I'm not the biggest guy, but
Speaker 3: he makes plays and he's making the most of it
Speaker 3: of his opportunities as well. It was a couple other guys,
Speaker 3: the tight ends. I thought the tight ends looked really good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: saw saw being sent and make some plays. I mentioned
Speaker 3: Zach Ers making some plays as well. So I thought
Speaker 3: the tight ends shoot our other tight end, the big
Speaker 3: uh No, bas John Bates, he made some plays as well,
Speaker 3: and he well, there was this one time he caught
Speaker 3: a pass and the defender safe he was looking to
Speaker 3: come up and thut him, and next thing you know,
Speaker 3: it was like he was a speed bumper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basse man, it was. It was pretty big, pretty.
Speaker 1: Nice offensive lineman. Yeah, in a tight ends body. That's
Speaker 1: what they love about him. And Zakias seems to bring
Speaker 1: the attitude that they're looking for. This coaching staff is
Speaker 1: looking for a I want the ball, it's mine, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. And on defense, they want the guys uber confident,
Speaker 1: go get the ball, turn it over, play really fast,
Speaker 1: which is when I'll get into the defense in the
Speaker 1: practice in a minute. But I want, I want to
Speaker 1: stay on that thought for a minute with you, which
Speaker 1: is they keep talking about Dan Quinn, Joe Witt. You know,
Speaker 1: this is what we're about. Your friends and family gonna
Speaker 1: watch us. You're gonna like what you see. We're gonna
Speaker 1: play with a lot of intensity. We're gonna bring it
Speaker 1: like those type of things. And the other day, like
Speaker 1: to the point about they haven't shown game speed yet.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen it yet. We've not seen it yet.
Speaker 1: And it's not to suggest that like they're not doing it.
Speaker 1: It's purposefully they're not going at the speed and intensity
Speaker 1: that they intend to have at some point, which is
Speaker 1: gonna have to obviously change on Saturday when they play
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 3: I'll say this when you and I don't know if
Speaker 3: you're just talking, and you may be talking mainly intensity
Speaker 3: within the trenches. Yeah, like offensive linemen, I mean receivers,
Speaker 3: cornerbacks like their game speed because you have to run
Speaker 3: full speed routes. You have to run at the cover
Speaker 3: guys at the at the game speed. There's no like,
Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna be eighty percent you you need
Speaker 3: to run these routes full speed. So a lot of
Speaker 3: the perimeters those that's full speed. That's game speed. There's
Speaker 3: no gonna there's not gonna be a all of a
Speaker 3: sudden we turn it on once we get into two.
Speaker 3: You know, preseason games or the regular season, finishing plays
Speaker 3: may not be at the level that they will be
Speaker 3: at once. Finishing plays from an offensive stamp, offensive line standpoint,
Speaker 3: you know, de keeting, decleting somebody really uh, you know,
Speaker 3: pancaking somebody in the in the whether in a run
Speaker 3: block or perimeter, play screens and things like that. They're
Speaker 3: not doing those things yet, not in the not in
Speaker 3: the practice setting. You just don't want to do those things,
Speaker 3: but you want to make sure you're in the right
Speaker 3: position first and foremost, and then once once the games
Speaker 3: really ramp up, you'll see those guys being finished.
Speaker 1: With the other day in the press conference said you know,
Speaker 1: we're living that mantra. This can't be bs. Yeah like that,
Speaker 1: it has to be that. And so I've been waiting
Speaker 1: to see because listen, I've been around a long time.
Speaker 1: I'm covered you as a player. That is a long
Speaker 1: time ago. Man. You know, teams before you were even
Speaker 1: in Washington. This is not what training camp was. It's
Speaker 1: just a different time.
Speaker 3: It's a different it's a different time. Just that's just
Speaker 3: the way it is. And and and even within that,
Speaker 3: I think coaches have certain ways that they want to
Speaker 3: go out go about getting their teams ready to play.
Speaker 3: Where you're going to have some coaches they're going to
Speaker 3: have full paths every day, yeah, you know, as much
Speaker 3: as they possibly can. And then you're gonna have some
Speaker 3: coaches who may take an approach where hey, we're gonna
Speaker 3: be full pass this day maybe and shorts the next day.
Speaker 2: Back in full past, things like that.
Speaker 1: It felt like in the back of the day, he
Speaker 1: was like, let's see who can survive you.
Speaker 3: Definitely there was a survival mentality, and it's it's not
Speaker 3: that we just got embrace it.
Speaker 2: Bra times have changed, man.
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting they're the only ones doing this. The
Speaker 1: Jets were holding up too. I mean, it wasn't like
Speaker 1: there was a lot of physical There were no fights today.
Speaker 1: There was no reason to have any today. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like anybody was taking any cheap shots. So the message
Speaker 1: you got to cross on both sides today.
Speaker 3: Right there was there were a couple of shots that
Speaker 3: were taken where I thought this could lead to a
Speaker 3: kind of a fistic cuff and it didn't happen, didn't
Speaker 3: take place. So, you know, guys were conscious of the
Speaker 3: message that was delivered to them from their head coach.
Speaker 3: I know, Coach Quinn obviously let his players, hey, we
Speaker 3: don't want those things, and I'm sure Robert Salad did
Speaker 3: the same thing with his players. But there were some
Speaker 3: times where I saw a couple of hits and I
Speaker 3: was like waiting on this to be, you know, to
Speaker 3: escalate to something a little bit more than and it
Speaker 3: didn't happen.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the defense a little bit.
Speaker 1: I actually saw more of that in the joint practice
Speaker 1: than I did of the offense today. If you see
Speaker 1: some clips on like Twitter from early in practice, you'll
Speaker 1: hear all these ooze and odds and jet scoring and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I want to go back to what
Speaker 1: we were just talking about. People were holding up. There
Speaker 1: was no full tackling or anything like that. And there
Speaker 1: were plenty of times where guys were would have been
Speaker 1: teed up but weren't and allowed to keep running in
Speaker 1: the fans might have been confused with what they were watching.
Speaker 3: Or a quarterback may have gotten sacked, and you just
Speaker 3: don't never you never know. The big takeaway, actually, I
Speaker 3: thought was a really good first sign. One of the
Speaker 3: big questions about this team is are they going to
Speaker 3: be able to generate a consistent pass rush?
Speaker 1: And in a first go today they did. Actually, in
Speaker 1: my viewpoint of what I saw from the sideline, George
Speaker 1: Armstrong had a couple of good rushes. I think Frankie
Speaker 1: Luvu is a very interesting movable part for this team. Again,
Speaker 1: probably someone Joe What doesn't really want to show what
Speaker 1: they're going to do with him. He was in the
Speaker 1: backfield a couple of times. You know, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna have your moments with Dante Fowler for sure. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have your moments with Cleveland Ferrell. I
Speaker 1: think they're hoping Jamie Davis is gonna be somebody that
Speaker 1: can count on there. But I saw some of it today.
Speaker 1: So with the offensive line juggling and we're worried and
Speaker 1: the corners you all get to in a minute. On
Speaker 1: that question of can they generate a consistent pass rush
Speaker 1: in the first real test of it, which is just
Speaker 1: a practice, it was actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I think that the question was will we be able
Speaker 3: to generate a pass rush from the edges?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 3: Because we know we have an interior we have you know,
Speaker 3: Jonathan Allen and Doron Pain, two of the best interior
Speaker 3: pass rushers in the NFL, and then you add Johnny
Speaker 3: Newton to that mix, one of the most disruptive players
Speaker 3: in college football from the antirior. So you know, if
Speaker 3: that pressure will be there the edges, are we going
Speaker 3: to be able to have pressure out there? So it's
Speaker 3: a I'm happy to hear that report from you about
Speaker 3: what those guys were able to do in that practice
Speaker 3: against the just being able to get some get some
Speaker 3: pressure off the edges. And you mentioned Doris Armstrong, you
Speaker 3: mentioned uh shoot a Dante Fowler. Yeah, those guys being
Speaker 3: able to So that's that's music to my ears because
Speaker 3: you want to be able to do it with four
Speaker 3: and not have to you know, blitch the quarterback, not
Speaker 3: have to bring a fifth rush or things like that.
Speaker 3: So if you can do it with four and just
Speaker 3: have those that seven concentrate on coverage, that's great.
Speaker 1: Uh. I mean I came into this feeling like Armstrong
Speaker 1: is gonna be steady. I mean if I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's going to give them huge numbers, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna be steady. I think, you know what you get.
Speaker 1: We've seen him, We've gone up against him for a
Speaker 1: number of years, and obviously he knows this defense. It's
Speaker 1: that other side where is the question. Farrell's a very
Speaker 1: good player. Fowler situationally has been very very good.
Speaker 2: Still have some juice.
Speaker 1: Yet you have this consistency at that other side, and
Speaker 1: at least for day one, they found a way to
Speaker 1: kind of work around it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was talking to a couple of scouts about, you know,
Speaker 3: just some of those guys, and they, you know, they
Speaker 3: love how hard Armstrong plays. It's like he's gonna he's
Speaker 3: gonna make plays just because of how hard he plays.
Speaker 3: And you know, a Foler still has juice coming off
Speaker 3: that edge and a situational player. As you mentioned, he's
Speaker 3: not gonna be a every down player. But when you
Speaker 3: get when you get in third and obvious passing situations
Speaker 3: and you're able to bring him in and let him,
Speaker 3: you know, work, attack and do those types of things,
Speaker 3: I'm i'm I want to see what he's able to do.
Speaker 3: And those guys will benefit also from the from the
Speaker 3: interior pass rush.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think so. With Fowler, I didn't see anything
Speaker 1: specific from him today, but there's a hope that it
Speaker 1: will be there. And with Jamon, there's a hope that
Speaker 1: there's going to be able. They're gonna find some situational
Speaker 1: plays for him on third down where he's going to
Speaker 1: be hopefully effective for them. All right, let me get
Speaker 1: to the corners. We had our first unofficial official depth
Speaker 1: chart crowd.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you see that, it's like, okay, all right, well,
Speaker 3: this is a competition, you know, Forbes, this is a
Speaker 3: you got to build him back up after the last
Speaker 3: season and what he went through. It was just a
Speaker 3: situation where you have to restore his confidence. Let him understand, hey,
Speaker 3: you are that guy that we drafted number one, and
Speaker 3: you have traits and skills and and there's a reason
Speaker 3: why you were so successful at that playing in the SEC.
Speaker 3: There was a there was a sequence and I'm sure
Speaker 3: you remember this when they were working. I think it
Speaker 3: was moved the ball or two minute drill whatever what
Speaker 3: they threw. Seemed like four out of the first six
Speaker 3: plays end up going to his side, and he stood
Speaker 3: up and he made some plays, made some plass deflections,
Speaker 3: and he was sticky and coveraging. You love to see
Speaker 3: that for a guy trying to regain his confidence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's gonna be key for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you played so maybe you know. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you played with guys his confidence were shaking it at
Speaker 1: some point in time.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I've had had my confidence shaking a
Speaker 3: time of too, not often, but.
Speaker 1: At that position, in the receiver position, you gotta have them.
Speaker 3: You gotta have athletic arrogance. It's because especially I think
Speaker 3: cornerback is the position. I think it requires the most
Speaker 3: confidence because of you, because of what you're required to do.
Speaker 3: You're oftentimes covering the best athlete on the football field
Speaker 3: with minoi mono no help a lot of times, and
Speaker 3: you against me, so you have to feel like.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna beat me. I'm gonna be here.
Speaker 3: And if you do beat me, it wasn't something you
Speaker 3: did it with something I did wrong. That's kind of
Speaker 3: how you have to have the mentality you have to
Speaker 3: have at the cornerback position.
Speaker 1: I think this weekend, next week's practice the Dolphins, next
Speaker 1: week's game against the Dolphins is the huge part of
Speaker 1: the summer for Emmanuel Forbes. I think he needs to
Speaker 1: show them and prove to them that he can be
Speaker 1: trusted to be out there. Yeah, prominently right, right, there's
Speaker 1: no danger of him not being here or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but prominently playing. I think he needs to prove that.
Speaker 1: But next week to a Tyreek Hill Jalen Waddle, it's
Speaker 1: going to be a heck of a test for this
Speaker 1: for the commanders.
Speaker 2: It will.
Speaker 3: And you know, again this is this is an opportunity
Speaker 3: for and not just not just not just Forbes, because
Speaker 3: all those guys have, you know, something to It's an
Speaker 3: opportunity to get better, to compete at a high level,
Speaker 3: whether you're Benjamin Saying, Jews, Michael Davis, Emmanuel Forbes, Mikey Samasteel.
Speaker 3: You know, even though he's a rookie. So these are opportunities.
Speaker 3: Every time your cleats touched the grass, it's an opportunity
Speaker 3: for you compete and get better.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this too, Michael Davis came here to
Speaker 1: play for these coaches because he believes that they can
Speaker 1: elevate his game. And if he becomes the guy who
Speaker 1: has the six to eight interception season that commonly has
Speaker 1: occurred under Dan Quinn and Joe Witt, he knows what
Speaker 1: that means on the other side. So he is here
Speaker 1: and motivated in the middle of his career to hopefully
Speaker 1: be elevated. So he's motivated to win the job. And
Speaker 1: then the guy I love that I think is very
Speaker 1: under the radar is Igbinoghany, who's a former lot He's
Speaker 1: bounced around a little bit, so he's a high level athlete.
Speaker 1: Though he's a former first round pick. This is his
Speaker 1: second year with those guys. He was in Dallas last year.
Speaker 1: He pops in here with an opportunity. They've already kind
Speaker 1: of they're given him kick return roles. I think you
Speaker 1: go see a lot of him on the field. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, because I know people are worried about
Speaker 1: the quarters and I am too. I don't know. That
Speaker 1: they're weak. I think the depth manned up surpassing the
Speaker 1: players who are currently in front if they don't win
Speaker 1: their jobs back. And that's why it's on Forbes and
Speaker 1: Saint Jus to hold these guys back that they want
Speaker 1: to be on the Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, coaching though too, and the coaching matters. And I've
Speaker 3: I've been so impressed with these coaches and the practices
Speaker 3: that I've been able to attend. You've you've gone to
Speaker 3: you know, basically every practice. Yeah, you've gone to.
Speaker 2: All all the Yeah, you've gone to all practices.
Speaker 3: I've been I've been able to see maybe four practices,
Speaker 3: I believe, but the four that I've seen the amount
Speaker 3: of the attention to detail the coaching and just the
Speaker 3: coaching and the individuals pre snap and then also on
Speaker 3: the sideline after plays happened, the details of the in
Speaker 3: the coaching that they a getting. I've been extremely impressed.
Speaker 3: Guy wanted me mention Jeremy Chen. Yeah, there was a
Speaker 3: player that you probably remember he caught a there was
Speaker 3: a ball tight end was catching across the middle and
Speaker 3: it was in a real gay. They probably would still
Speaker 3: be picking him up off the ground, man, I mean
Speaker 3: the ball it was a bang bang play and chain
Speaker 3: he held up a little bit. I actually thought he
Speaker 3: was going to intercept the ball. He ended up tight
Speaker 3: an caught it, but he I mean it was he
Speaker 3: would have been decapitated.
Speaker 1: Listen, they did a great job in Dallas with Quinn
Speaker 1: and Wit with jarn Curse. Yeah, that's the position is
Speaker 1: gonna play here. He's a bigger he's bigger, bigger player
Speaker 1: at that position. And if this goes well, this will
Speaker 1: not be a one year relationship. And not only is
Speaker 1: it not only is it a bigger player, he has
Speaker 1: a more instinctive, I want to say, more instinctive mentality
Speaker 1: in terms of stopping the run. So just he's comfortable
Speaker 1: being in that box and being kind of a hybrid linebacker.
Speaker 1: Long he wants to hit people, see it.
Speaker 3: I like, I love anybody who likes to speaking of
Speaker 3: hit people, like to hit people. Frankie lous He talked
Speaker 3: about wanted to hit people. There was a there was
Speaker 3: a run play that a little inside zone playing alive
Speaker 3: and it's trying to try to, you know, move Frankie
Speaker 3: Louvo and Louis was just throwing him out of the
Speaker 3: way and he's wrapping up the Ballcad He's just like
Speaker 3: he walks in back about three three yards.
Speaker 2: He's just like ah. I was like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 2: love this.
Speaker 1: All right, Well we have a few minutes. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the game that's happening. This game happened this week
Speaker 1: The game happened this weekend. Most of the starters got
Speaker 1: a lot of the reps that was promised by Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn in the practice, which is gonna flip in the game.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna see Jayden Daniels, is gonna see Marcus Mariota,
Speaker 1: but probably for a series or two. That's probably it.
Speaker 1: And then they're gonna turn it over to some of
Speaker 1: the younger guys. So who are the younger guys you're
Speaker 1: thinking about that could make a name for themselves this
Speaker 1: weekend because they're gonna get real opportunities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they definitely will give real opportunities. You just sticking
Speaker 3: to the offensive side of the ball. Thinking about Luke McCaffrey,
Speaker 3: you know he's gonna he's gonna be out there a
Speaker 3: lot of I imagine him being out there. Senate Ben
Speaker 3: Senner's gonna be out there kind of showing what he
Speaker 3: can do. Flipping over to the defensive side of the ball. Man,
Speaker 3: somebody the young safeties hamped him. There was Owen you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: just really stood out. He's an undrafted rookie, but he's
Speaker 3: looks like Chin actually, Rangey's very tall, Rangey fast, and
Speaker 3: he has really really stood out and the coaches have
Speaker 3: talked about him a lot. So he could be one
Speaker 3: of the surprises this year that emerges a Bryson Tremaine. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: he's he's uh, he's gonna make a play. And then
Speaker 3: it was a tight end and I and I had
Speaker 3: my who made a great play. Yan Koff, Yes, he
Speaker 3: made an impressive.
Speaker 1: Now that Herminie Rodgers isn't here anymore, there's a chance
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 3: Right right because he had a jersey switch. Yeah, Yankov
Speaker 3: made an outstanding play. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 3: because this was this was during the time that defense
Speaker 3: was on one field and offense, so you I don't
Speaker 3: know if you were looking, but there was a there
Speaker 3: was a They lined him up outside and he'd beat
Speaker 3: a he was a safety on a go ball. Oh man,
Speaker 3: yea perfect throw, but the catch over the shoulder can't show.
Speaker 3: And showed great skills and the way his teammates reacted
Speaker 3: and you know, running and jumping up congratulating him.
Speaker 2: Just a great catch by him. He popped for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the receivers over the next couple of weeks
Speaker 1: is a spot that I'm watching really closely here because look,
Speaker 1: Terry Johan, Zachias McCaffrey is a high draft pick. That's
Speaker 1: four they're making the team. So that leaves you one
Speaker 1: to two spots, probably two, right, Tremayne who you mentioned,
Speaker 1: who's made a ton of highlight worthy plays in practice,
Speaker 1: Mitchell Tinsley, who is very twitchy, good young receiver. And
Speaker 1: then you got two veterans. Jamison Crowder who right now
Speaker 1: leader in the clubhouse to be the primary punt returner.
Speaker 1: Byron Pringle, who they brought back, is a dog. Okay,
Speaker 1: plays hard well, he can cut, he can he can
Speaker 1: cover kicks. Two that's right. Of those four, only two
Speaker 1: are going to make the team. So this is a
Speaker 1: very interesting week for veterans and two younger players to
Speaker 1: try to impress everybody. I didn't even named Diami Brown yet,
Speaker 1: and you'd think at this point.
Speaker 2: The Army popped a couple of times a day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he popped.
Speaker 1: They've talked about him too. So there's a heavy competition
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the wide receiver position.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very heavy. Looking at defense and going back.
Speaker 3: And as we're talking, I'm thinking about guys that kind
Speaker 3: of are under the radar. Pittman, Yeah, linebacker, he's he's
Speaker 3: he's made some plays, having a really good camp. I'm
Speaker 3: sure they're excited to see him when the lights turned on.
Speaker 3: You know, how's how's he performing? He's a VET, he's
Speaker 3: a pro, Yeah, exactly, a guy who else pop for me?
Speaker 2: Walker?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Michael Walker. Yeah, yeah, he's he's another VET. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's done some good things as well. So then you
Speaker 3: got the young pup Jordan McGee, fifth round draft pick.
Speaker 3: I mean physical specially you look at heavy You're like, okay,
Speaker 3: so seeing seeing what he looks like when the when
Speaker 3: the lights come on?
Speaker 1: All right, last thing, Uh, Jaden makes his debut. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't believe he's gonna play very much.
Speaker 1: But what do you want to see from him over
Speaker 1: the next week the Jets and the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: We just first and foremost in terms of or a rookie,
Speaker 3: especially you know, a quarterback, you want to see him
Speaker 3: kind of go through his routine. Figure out what he
Speaker 3: wants to do from a pregame routine, getting himself ready
Speaker 3: to play a regular season game, so, you know, kind
Speaker 3: of figuring out his routine, being decisive with the football,
Speaker 3: making great decisions. You know, we don't know how much
Speaker 3: we'll see him in this ball game, so just during
Speaker 3: the during the time that he's on the football field,
Speaker 3: making sure he's making the right decision with the football.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Booth Review will officially debut on August twenty six. This
Speaker 1: was our exclusive preview version of it. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to see it on the Commander's YouTube or wherever you
Speaker 1: get all of your podcasts. Maybe we'll let Logan bye.
Speaker 1: Every one same, I'm excited to get the season going.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to do this podcast with you.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Were all right, everybody, enjoy the game against the Jets.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon at the content control and
Speaker 1: at the cont