Speaker 1: Welcome into the game plan.
Speaker 2: Logan and I sit down with head coach Dan Quinn
Speaker 2: to look at the outlook of the Commanders as they
Speaker 2: head into the bye week, and Logan and I look
Speaker 2: forward to these last four games and how we can
Speaker 2: get some wins and finish this season strong.
Speaker 1: All that and what on the game plan.
Speaker 2: Welcoming get head coach dan Quinn, What a way to
Speaker 2: go into the bye week with a win. What is
Speaker 2: the message to the team as you had into the
Speaker 2: bye week after such a great win.
Speaker 3: I think for all of us watching, we know what
Speaker 3: the vision you know of our team of what we
Speaker 3: can be. And so this play style, the attitude, the identity,
Speaker 3: the physicality, that's what we want to be. And so
Speaker 3: by playing fast, by playing physical, by taking care of
Speaker 3: the ball, by going after it, those are the things
Speaker 3: that I want to see.
Speaker 1: Every time we play.
Speaker 3: And that's going to be true now and ten years
Speaker 3: from now and fifteen years from now, and so that
Speaker 3: ain't ever changing.
Speaker 4: I think that's probably the coaches like paradox is like
Speaker 4: how do you get the guys to do it? You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, because it's like that's the goal
Speaker 4: and I know that's the goal, and you know that's
Speaker 4: the goal, but how do you get the execution there
Speaker 4: all the time?
Speaker 3: Well, I think number one logan that has to be
Speaker 3: for the guy next to them, not for any of
Speaker 3: the coaches. And that's where real connection takes place. And
Speaker 3: so if you can get that part right and doing
Speaker 3: it over and over again, that's a big deal. What
Speaker 3: I noticed for sure was it was lead sled dog time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I felt that from Terry McLaurin, from Wagner, from Ertz,
Speaker 3: from others, where Okay, this is how it's how we're
Speaker 3: going to get down And I love that because the
Speaker 3: best of the best leaders, they're willing to put themselves
Speaker 3: out there and make sure all the things that we're
Speaker 3: going to do on the hardest of days, hard practices,
Speaker 3: out in the wind and the cold, but like.
Speaker 1: We're going to get it in today, and they were
Speaker 1: all about.
Speaker 2: It and coach, we are heading into the bie cover.
Speaker 2: There's still games to be placed. When you look at
Speaker 2: that win, what can you take from that win and
Speaker 2: game plan to help us in.
Speaker 1: Our next match against the scenes.
Speaker 3: More than anything, we want to make sure that the
Speaker 3: things that we do well that that carries over having
Speaker 3: a late buye. I never really talked about it with
Speaker 3: the team of the buye.
Speaker 1: No one really.
Speaker 3: Cared, you know, and there wasn't much to be gained
Speaker 3: from that. Hey, in two weeks from now, we're going
Speaker 3: to have a buy and you're gonna feel great. You're
Speaker 3: gonna feel great in two weeks. I knew there would
Speaker 3: be some silver lining on the end of that, and
Speaker 3: so I just wanted us to go push to work
Speaker 3: our skills. Can we get better? And if we could
Speaker 3: do that, even as you're in a struggle, there is
Speaker 3: you do gain that. And I'd love to say that
Speaker 3: the progress comes in all the games like yesterday, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of progress that came in the three weeks prior,
Speaker 3: and you have to sometimes go through that hard part
Speaker 3: to see the growth. And yesterday's game you got to
Speaker 3: feel some of that growth. Although it sucked to go
Speaker 3: through the hardest part. It is how you come out
Speaker 3: the other end that is what you can apply into
Speaker 3: the next game, into the next lap, into the second
Speaker 3: half of the season.
Speaker 4: Do you have an example, coach of something that you
Speaker 4: feel like the guys learned from the tough stretch that
Speaker 4: they were able to apply yesterday and they can care
Speaker 4: for the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: I would say the line of scrimmage work is the
Speaker 3: thing that stood out to me the most on both sides,
Speaker 3: and we would go as far as our big guys
Speaker 3: would take them on both sides, and knowing how important
Speaker 3: that is to have balance to be able to play
Speaker 3: strong at the line of scrimmage. December cold football, we're
Speaker 3: playing outside. That part has to go Downloagan, and if
Speaker 3: we could get that part of our game like we
Speaker 3: want to. I wasn't going to measure the success of
Speaker 3: the run game and just the total yards. Did we
Speaker 3: target right, We're our pads down, could we finish blocks,
Speaker 3: could we move the pile? Those were the things I
Speaker 3: was looking to measure. It just so happened that Brian
Speaker 3: set it off early. But I wasn't going to measure
Speaker 3: on that. I wanted it the intent taking our shots
Speaker 3: at it. And same thing defensively.
Speaker 1: And Coach, we have to talk about your boy.
Speaker 2: Bobby Wagner continues to make history thirteenth season with one
Speaker 2: hundred or more tackles. He got that on Sunday. You
Speaker 2: have a long history with Bobby Wagner. What has been
Speaker 2: like to see him continue over and over again to.
Speaker 1: Make that history.
Speaker 3: Yeah, consistency, man, it's not the sexiest word, but it
Speaker 3: is so strong about who you are. And if you know,
Speaker 3: you'd see many of mornings at six o'clock, and who'd
Speaker 3: you think you'd see first in the weight room in
Speaker 3: his wax And so I saw a tackling drill a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago. I talked about of him over and
Speaker 3: over again, where he's probably done that ten thousand times,
Speaker 3: but it was such deliberate practice about how he would bend,
Speaker 3: try to hit it on the rise, get the rap together.
Speaker 3: And so consistency for him is just the way he lives.
Speaker 3: It's not it didn't have to do extra that he's here,
Speaker 3: but the way that he does. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: sacrifice that goes into his game. That all of the
Speaker 3: unrequired work meaning required when you're here, but there's a
Speaker 3: lot that he does not here, of getting ready, taking
Speaker 3: care of his body, of watching film and studying, and
Speaker 3: so all that sacrifice. It takes away from family time.
Speaker 3: But he also knows he's playing. They'll understand when it
Speaker 3: gets to the special parts of the season. All that
Speaker 3: unrequired work, all the extra that he puts in Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I think about him in the same context as
Speaker 4: like London Fletcher, And I was a rookie when London
Speaker 4: was in his thirteenth season here, and just how special
Speaker 4: and how impactful it was to see someone who's been
Speaker 4: to the mountaintop yep, and it's still playing at a
Speaker 4: really high level. I know we've talked about it a bunch,
Speaker 4: but like it just seems like such a huge part
Speaker 4: in year one to have a guy like that here
Speaker 4: to just say hey, like this is the way follow
Speaker 4: me kind of deal, And I just I don't know
Speaker 4: if you can overstate that kind of importance.
Speaker 3: And how many people can still keep up with him,
Speaker 3: I know, but.
Speaker 1: They want to what's the workout routine? How do you study?
Speaker 3: They all wanted the information and now it's up to
Speaker 3: them to apply it, but they wanted to know, like,
Speaker 3: what's the secret. Well, you're going to be disappointed. And
Speaker 3: what Bobby has done remarkably is he has raised his floor.
Speaker 3: So this is where he performs all the time. There's
Speaker 3: no dips and valleys into his performances. It's consistently good
Speaker 3: all the time. Like he just doesn't allow himself to
Speaker 3: dip down into performances that aren't good enough, like he
Speaker 3: just won't allow it.
Speaker 2: And it's funny Logan mentions his London Fletcher because he's
Speaker 2: the only other person to have more seasons with one
Speaker 2: hundred plus tackles. So shout out to London Fletcher. I
Speaker 2: know they're very close. Now another guy you're familiar with.
Speaker 3: I did see them yesterday in the locker room talking
Speaker 3: and it made me really proud to see these two
Speaker 3: linebackers and I thought to myself, how many tackles do
Speaker 3: these two like they're like it, like, I just saw
Speaker 3: them talking together and it made me think, like how
Speaker 3: remarkable the both of them are, and so here they are.
Speaker 3: They weren't talking as a member of the media or
Speaker 3: they were just talking as two linebackers, like just two
Speaker 3: guys that tackle everything and like you know, like.
Speaker 1: Bike, no apologies.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, And it was one of my favorite memories
Speaker 3: of leaving the locker room yesterday, just seeing these two
Speaker 3: guys who are elite at what they do, just having
Speaker 3: a conversation and coach.
Speaker 1: Is interesting.
Speaker 2: You mentioned that because London tweeted today that they he
Speaker 2: reached out. Bobby reached out to London back in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: just to get advice. When you're a guy like Bobby
Speaker 2: Wagoner who's just so good that passion, that hunger for knowledge. Man,
Speaker 2: how special is that when you see a guy like
Speaker 2: Bobby Wagner that wants to reach out to the.
Speaker 1: Oldest and say, you know what, I want to learn
Speaker 1: from you, and that's his way.
Speaker 3: Now London paid it forward to Bobby, and Bobby's now
Speaker 3: doing that to some of his teammates. And that's probably
Speaker 3: the bigger part of the football brotherhood that most fans
Speaker 3: don't know about, and how much people are willing to
Speaker 3: pay their knowledge forward, And it's one of the coolest
Speaker 3: parts of our game that they get to share the
Speaker 3: information about it.
Speaker 4: Well. One of the things that I always appreciate when
Speaker 4: when you're in Atlanta we were there together, was that
Speaker 4: I felt like you had a knack for that is
Speaker 4: like that football brotherhood. You know what I'm saying. It
Speaker 4: is like kind of encouraging guys to do that. And
Speaker 4: I think that's super special and super important. And why
Speaker 4: do you think that's so important?
Speaker 3: Anytime anybody's done anything at the highest of levels, you
Speaker 3: should want to know you know what is? You know
Speaker 3: what was one thing you know that made a difference
Speaker 3: in your career? Like why wouldn't you ask Doug Williams,
Speaker 3: a you know doesn't have to be on the field.
Speaker 3: Was what was one thing you did that made a
Speaker 3: difference in your career. I remember, like we were talking
Speaker 3: about in Atlanta, John Lynch, before he was the GM
Speaker 3: at San Francisco was doing TVs. Would you come early
Speaker 3: and spend the morning with Kiki with kind of here
Speaker 3: was these two physical safeties and what that looked like.
Speaker 3: And sometimes just all you need to do is make
Speaker 3: a connection, just connect the dots of people that stand
Speaker 3: for that kind of football and that brand. And so
Speaker 3: for us, we're fortunate, you know to have you know,
Speaker 3: people like Daryl Green that's here by or a guy
Speaker 3: like Doug or yourself. That's just the ability to ask
Speaker 3: and the guys that are willing to share that information
Speaker 3: like that's a really cool thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you're even seeing that on the offensive side with
Speaker 2: the way that Tera McLain's kind of taking Jaden Daniels others.
Speaker 2: We and they've made that connection two touchdowns against the
Speaker 2: Sannessee Signs. We continue to see that connection grow. What
Speaker 2: have you seen from them and their relationship and how
Speaker 2: they've been able to work together throughout this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, practice is top of the list. And for the
Speaker 3: fans that may seem like practice, like how could that
Speaker 3: be that valuable? You know, we have all these games,
Speaker 3: But it's the timing, it's the connection, it's the depth
Speaker 3: of a route. It's knowing where to go if it's
Speaker 3: man to man and where to sit down if it's
Speaker 3: a certain coverage, and so that doesn't happen just on
Speaker 3: and so it has to be an eye contact, a signal,
Speaker 3: you know, them being in such connection with one another, that's.
Speaker 1: The biggest part of it.
Speaker 3: And they have found that together.
Speaker 4: And one of the things like you know, work with
Speaker 4: Matt Ryan and work with some other older quarterbacks. So
Speaker 4: of course of my career is like guys that could
Speaker 4: basically say like this is the way I see it
Speaker 4: and communicate that to the you know, the receiver, no
Speaker 4: matter their level of experience. Have you seen that from
Speaker 4: Jaden Like his ability to kind of it's leadership, it's charisma,
Speaker 4: whatever that is. And work that relationship with Terry.
Speaker 3: I see it in the way. Let's stay after, let's
Speaker 3: go through that again. I should have been you know,
Speaker 3: those are the responsibilities.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so.
Speaker 3: One of the things that the team admires about Jaden
Speaker 3: from the very beginning was his ability to be consistently
Speaker 3: on the details and so knowing where your route was
Speaker 3: supposed to be, yours was, and so as they were
Speaker 3: all learning it, it wasn't like everybody else had three
Speaker 3: or four years of experience in the system before him.
Speaker 3: He was on the same exact level as everybody else
Speaker 3: learning it. So they were also asking him, which is
Speaker 3: a little different dynamic. But he worked at it so
Speaker 3: hard that they could ask him and he would be
Speaker 3: able to deliver it with the right hand.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 2: And coach, we have to talk about Brian Robinson Junr.
Speaker 2: His impact was felt once again. How important is his
Speaker 2: game and this running game to our overall offense.
Speaker 3: It's the uh, It's not just the size that's that's
Speaker 3: part of it as a bigger back, but there's a
Speaker 3: lot of big backs. It's his ability to either try
Speaker 3: to you know, run you over or the ability to
Speaker 3: try to break you off as they're coming down. Into
Speaker 3: the context of his ability to make the two yard
Speaker 3: run into four, the five yard run into eight. You
Speaker 3: know that now it's a first down, it's eight, and
Speaker 3: then the ability to break a long one like he
Speaker 3: did to set the whole game off on Sunday. That's
Speaker 3: an impactful player. And then let's pick up all that
Speaker 3: went into that. Like I thought, it was a really
Speaker 3: strong performance.
Speaker 1: Right Brian and coach were heading into the bye week?
Speaker 2: What do you want to see your team achieve, especially
Speaker 2: a very young team, is such a late by week.
Speaker 2: What do you want to see them achieved during this
Speaker 2: by week.
Speaker 1: Number one reset?
Speaker 3: You know, it's been a you know, long stretch for
Speaker 3: the guys, so it is important to disconnect, even if
Speaker 3: just for a few days, and then as we come
Speaker 3: back in Monday, we'll break back to the things we
Speaker 3: need to improve upon and then we go for it.
Speaker 3: Man like coming back into the second half of the
Speaker 3: seasons like going to base camp and you just go
Speaker 3: for the next one. You go for the next one.
Speaker 3: And that's what I want to see. But there's a
Speaker 3: lot of digging I have to do still about what
Speaker 3: we want to improve upon, but moren anything, coming back
Speaker 3: as a mindset to go attack and coach.
Speaker 2: I can speak for myself, I can speak for Logan
Speaker 2: and the fans when I say, we cannot wait to
Speaker 2: see you guys back on that field. Congrats on the
Speaker 2: success you've seen thus far, and we can't wait to
Speaker 2: see the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: We can't either, man, the guys leave them for a week.
Speaker 3: It's important this time of year there is this over lining.
Speaker 3: But by the time that week's over, man, we'll be
Speaker 3: chomping to get back.
Speaker 1: Oh, We're ready. Command is family.
Speaker 2: We know you are enjoying the game plan. However, if
Speaker 2: you want to see coach and logan Paul said break
Speaker 2: down plays in the film room, you could check that
Speaker 2: out on the Commander's YouTube page. Now, Logan, I know
Speaker 2: we're heading to the buy we However, we still have
Speaker 2: four games left. So what is a ticket to a
Speaker 2: win as we close out this season.
Speaker 4: I think the first thing is, let's use this bye
Speaker 4: we can get healthy, right and this healthy team I
Speaker 4: think we saw last week first tend to see how
Speaker 4: physical they can be upfront. I think that's going to
Speaker 4: be the big driver. Honestly, in my opinion, it's how
Speaker 4: well the offensive line can play, how healthy b rob
Speaker 4: can be in terms of getting downhill being physical, Because
Speaker 4: when you look at when this team is at its best.
Speaker 4: They run the ball effectively. They got runs targeted effectively,
Speaker 4: and Coach talked about that when we talked with them.
Speaker 4: Just the physicality of that group is the thing that's
Speaker 4: really going to drive this Command is Family. That is
Speaker 4: your ticket to win.
Speaker 2: Now, we know you'll miss your commanders this Sunday, but
Speaker 2: we will enjoy our bye week and see y'all next Sunday.
Speaker 2: For head coach Dan Quinn, Logan Paulsen, and Brian Colbert.
Speaker 1: This is the game plan. Commander is Family.
Speaker 2: You could catch us every Sunday on WSA nine Sunday
Speaker 2: mornings before your games. This is game plan with Brian
Speaker 2: cob Junior and Logan Paulson head coach Dan Quinn till
Speaker 2: next Sunday.
Speaker 1: Command is Family. Yeah,