Speaker 1: Welcome into another special edition of the Booth Review Podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm Brahm Einstein. London Fletcher will be my weekly partner.
Speaker 1: But today down in Miami, off of the Joint Practice,
Speaker 1: the one and only Brian Mitchell.
Speaker 2: What's going on.
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 1: We beat the rain. It's actually ever taping this. It's
Speaker 1: pouring outside, but we had the underrated humidity humidity of
Speaker 1: Miami today for the joint practice.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is down south, you know, you see it
Speaker 4: gets human and when you're this close to the water,
Speaker 4: it happens. And normally right around this time the rain
Speaker 4: comes in. It's gonna stop soon and it's gonna be hot.
Speaker 3: To say all that did? All right?
Speaker 1: So we did the first edition of this last week
Speaker 1: and London and I we're in a hotel room like
Speaker 1: you and I are right now down in Miami. And
Speaker 1: then we threw it up on YouTube and everybody freaked.
Speaker 2: Out because they couldn't see us.
Speaker 1: So it's what you're not gonna obviously, if you're watching
Speaker 1: this now, you're not gonna see us. But we promise
Speaker 1: in the ones that start on the twenty six, we're
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Speaker 3: Hey, there we go.
Speaker 2: There's that.
Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna you can watch b Mitch tomorrow
Speaker 1: night at the game with Chickernandez and Brian Colbert Junior.
Speaker 1: WUSA nine is the local carry of the preseason for
Speaker 1: the Commanders and you could hear me London and Logan
Speaker 1: Paulson on the radio. Big one hundred is the flagship
Speaker 1: for the game tomorrow night. All right, now we paid
Speaker 1: all the bills, all right, let's do it all right.
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel dan Quinn have a unique relationship. In fact,
Speaker 1: even dan quinn talked about today how he helped Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel when he was going through some substance abuse back
Speaker 1: in the day and really was a big fan of
Speaker 1: his work, and he had talked openly about how this
Speaker 1: really worked out in the preseason with these joint practices.
Speaker 1: He has a very close relationship with Robert Sala, very
Speaker 1: close relationship.
Speaker 2: With Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: And I think today what you saw was a very
Speaker 1: professional environment between these two teams, and it was coordinated
Speaker 1: that it.
Speaker 4: Was a very professional environment. And also because those two
Speaker 4: people respect each other. Yeah, and know only when the
Speaker 4: coaches respect each other, you'll get this type of practice
Speaker 4: where you know, you see a little push in the
Speaker 4: shove happens in sports, but you didn't see anything crazy.
Speaker 3: And I think the ultimate thing.
Speaker 4: Is that coaches always say what they don't want, and
Speaker 4: a lot of times they don't respect the coaches they
Speaker 4: are practicing against. They have their players doing some stupid.
Speaker 4: These two people respected each other and you didn't see that.
Speaker 4: And then you also saw the intention and day in
Speaker 4: practice they were able to get great work on both
Speaker 4: sides of the ball.
Speaker 2: So I want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: My biggest takeaway today from watching this was there was
Speaker 1: an effet mentality about Miami that is unusual. I saw
Speaker 1: this in their preseason game and getting ready to call
Speaker 1: the game, you know, against the Dolphins this week in
Speaker 1: their first one against Atlanta. They don't hide anything. They
Speaker 1: have what appears to be this confidence of we're just
Speaker 1: going to practice what we do, we don't care if
Speaker 1: you see it, and we want to make you stop it.
Speaker 1: And that was happening today in this practice. All that misdirection,
Speaker 1: the speed, the usage of all that. Washington got to
Speaker 1: experience it today.
Speaker 3: They got the experience it.
Speaker 4: But the thing about Mike McDaniel his offense is that
Speaker 4: you saw his base, Okay. They threw a lot of
Speaker 4: extra stuff off of that, and I think it was
Speaker 4: great for Washington because normally in preseason you see the
Speaker 4: vanilla stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: His offense is more advanced than a lot of people's offenses,
Speaker 4: so the natural stuff is a lot of movement, which
Speaker 4: I think was great for these linebackers and for these
Speaker 4: defensive backs. They got to see those things and they
Speaker 4: also look like they below It didn't looked like they
Speaker 4: were overwhelmed by it.
Speaker 1: Now it's funny because the first few teams that Washington faces,
Speaker 1: if you look at the opponents, Tampa Bay Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: pocket passer, right Giants, Daniel Jones can move a little bit.
Speaker 1: Let's see what the offense looks like when he comes back.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow like until we get to Arizona and don't
Speaker 1: really know what Kyler Murray's offense is gonna look like.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna play anything that replicates anything
Speaker 1: like this. But I also feel like this team Miami,
Speaker 1: and it shows in how they performed a year ago.
Speaker 1: They execute with speed better than most teams. And if
Speaker 1: there ever was a good test to have in the preseason.
Speaker 1: It's these guys you find out where you are when
Speaker 1: you practice again.
Speaker 4: Like Jeremy Chin said, they have a footbaut one hundred
Speaker 4: track team on their roster. It was great for them
Speaker 4: because what happened with all the misdirection. You have to
Speaker 4: stick to your keys, and you saw a lot of
Speaker 4: that today where they didn't get lost. And I think
Speaker 4: when you look at some of the games last year,
Speaker 4: they got lost and right now I see I think
Speaker 4: you're seeing a better job of coaching happening. And also
Speaker 4: you're seeing a lot more people that's playing attention to detail.
Speaker 4: You know, when you pay attention to detail and you
Speaker 4: know what you have to do. Depending on where a
Speaker 4: person is on the field doesn't make a difference where
Speaker 4: they started at and how they run around. You just
Speaker 4: have when the ball is not where were they and
Speaker 4: I have to stick to those keys and they seem
Speaker 4: to be doing a great job of that, which when
Speaker 4: I was talking with Jeremy, he said that they're holding
Speaker 4: each other accountable.
Speaker 3: You know that word right there.
Speaker 4: Accountability is something that we haven't seen for the most part,
Speaker 4: and now we're starting to see it.
Speaker 1: There was a big change in a week. I mean
Speaker 1: it was pouring up in New York and the conditions
Speaker 1: were terrible. Aaron Rodgers didn't take part in it, but
Speaker 1: the Jets really had a lot lot of success, and
Speaker 1: I don't know how you judge. I'll ask you, how
Speaker 1: do you judge these practices? Because they didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of success against them and it was mainly Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor in backups.
Speaker 2: This week was different.
Speaker 1: They really felt it felt unfazed by all of this.
Speaker 1: Not that we're keeping score during all of it, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't like a track meet like you might have
Speaker 1: expected with a new defense trying to figure out maybe
Speaker 1: the best offense in the league.
Speaker 3: I think when you look.
Speaker 4: At it like you going to your first game practicing
Speaker 4: against another team, a lot of guys may have never
Speaker 4: done it before, wasn't accustomed to it. Then you have
Speaker 4: bad weather on top of it, so you're trying to
Speaker 4: be cautious and not hurt yourself. Okay, the coaches told
Speaker 4: you no fighting because prior to them going up there,
Speaker 4: the bill going against the jail the Jets, you heard
Speaker 4: about the two hundred thousand dollars fines, and you know
Speaker 4: when Dan mentioned it in one of his press offenses.
Speaker 4: I figured he had already talked to these players. So
Speaker 4: they went up there a little less motivated by doing
Speaker 4: something that might get them in trouble, get the team
Speaker 4: in trouble. But the Jets were ready to go. And
Speaker 4: then this week you can see that growth came. They
Speaker 4: came back and say, okay, we're going to match your intensity.
Speaker 2: Well to your point.
Speaker 1: Like it looked like I can the center of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins was trying to go doron pain into something today
Speaker 1: and he just wouldn't go there. He's keeping his money
Speaker 1: in his pocket.
Speaker 4: You know. See back in the day, in my days,
Speaker 4: I saw like old man, we could fight. They wasn't
Speaker 4: filming practice, didn't have is this much that much attention
Speaker 4: on it, so you don't have to worry about fine
Speaker 4: in practice. Now they're looking at these things just like
Speaker 4: a game now. And when you're going if you're going
Speaker 4: to bring a black eye to the league, they're going
Speaker 4: to make sure they takes a green at your project.
Speaker 3: To your point.
Speaker 1: Like you were talking to Larry Izzo, the specialty coach,
Speaker 1: and he's telling us that you got into a fight
Speaker 1: with him down here. Yes, no fight.
Speaker 4: For that, No fight, No fire because probably they didn't
Speaker 4: care about the interstrui practices back then. Now football is
Speaker 4: so big, people want to know every little thing that
Speaker 4: you're training.
Speaker 3: And now I know.
Speaker 4: People like to say, oh man, you can't keep controlling practice.
Speaker 4: The reason that people losing in practice because they wouldn't
Speaker 4: getting fined for it. Now you're going to find out
Speaker 4: that people will keep control even more whenever someone that's
Speaker 4: trying to take your money.
Speaker 3: You understand which can and which can't do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: The one moment that stood out for me to at
Speaker 1: least defensively was in red zone drills. Yes, Ta runs
Speaker 1: a play where it gets a single for Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: coming across the field back of the end zone. Mike
Speaker 1: Sandra's still the rookie ends on him. He floats on
Speaker 1: up the hill. It's one on one back of the
Speaker 1: end zone, and Sandra's still wins.
Speaker 3: These are the.
Speaker 2: Moments where I go more of that.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, you see him against maybe the most
Speaker 1: elite player in the NFL right now. He's number one
Speaker 1: in the NFL one hundred list for good reason. We
Speaker 1: saw what he did us last December. Oh yeah, he's elite,
Speaker 1: and here Sandra's still unfazed.
Speaker 3: He's unfazed by anybody on the field.
Speaker 4: And I've talked to guys throughout this team and I
Speaker 4: asked some questions about him because I've been impressed by
Speaker 4: him from the moment I saw him. He walked into
Speaker 4: We were building a garden, a garden rebuild at the school,
Speaker 4: and he walks in, and I'd like to watch. What know,
Speaker 4: you get all the guys together, all this testouts run together,
Speaker 4: who does everybody talk to?
Speaker 3: Who did?
Speaker 4: They all begin to float towards and everybody floated towards
Speaker 4: Mike say were still okay? And when you see that,
Speaker 4: Eva Jayden went towards him. So I was saying, this
Speaker 4: kid has something special. Then you watch him on a
Speaker 4: football field, and he did. He he is ready, he's prepared,
Speaker 4: he's athletic. He doesn't seem overwhelmed by anything. But we
Speaker 4: will take a step back. That play worked a lot
Speaker 4: because they ran a two gap linebacker blitz and got
Speaker 4: the tool. He had to get rid of that bottle,
Speaker 4: and when he floated it, Mikey was right there for
Speaker 4: it to knock it out. So, as I stated before,
Speaker 4: the defensive backfield is gonna get better when that rush
Speaker 4: gets better, and I based off what I saw there,
Speaker 4: Joe Whitt and Dan are not gonna be sitting back
Speaker 4: waiting for you to just try to throw balls down
Speaker 4: the field.
Speaker 1: Jalen Wattle did not take part in the practice today
Speaker 1: and I don't believe he's gonna play this week, and
Speaker 1: he's nursing some kind of injury. Odell Beckham's on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins now, but it wasn't working out on the side.
Speaker 1: He's on the pup list, so we're not gonna see
Speaker 1: him as well. But if they put their starters out there,
Speaker 1: and I was talking to one of their reporters today
Speaker 1: because the preseason game number two lest year, they played
Speaker 1: him into the second Athletics League game, so we may
Speaker 1: see a lot of them.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get a lot of Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: So I wonder where you are on just our corners
Speaker 1: in general as a whole, because we might get a
Speaker 1: real test on Saturday.
Speaker 4: We will get a real test. And I think the
Speaker 4: one thing I would like to see it. You know,
Speaker 4: we saw last year and we saw the way that
Speaker 4: Forest played.
Speaker 3: You know, he had his.
Speaker 4: Ups and this down, but this has been a great
Speaker 4: test for him. I think he held his own out
Speaker 4: there today. You know he was right there and he
Speaker 4: made some plays. So when you go into a game
Speaker 4: like this anytime, I know when I would go into
Speaker 4: games and my friends going against game, if you saw
Speaker 4: somebody that was real good, you felt this is a
Speaker 4: time I could show what I'm about. And everybody should
Speaker 4: be thinking that way. And when you look at a
Speaker 4: team with that much speed, this secondary who I'm sure
Speaker 4: they all feel like last year wasn't us and we're
Speaker 4: a better team this year.
Speaker 3: What better team to shortage?
Speaker 1: I mean you think that way too, don't you. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: bust last week it was horrible. I mean it was hard.
Speaker 4: It's not an indictment on anybody, but the whole thing
Speaker 4: about it is they didn't seem to be prepared. And
Speaker 4: if you don't seem to be prepared and then you
Speaker 4: were in the constantly being constantly being thrown out there,
Speaker 4: you're not being held accountable. So I just look at
Speaker 4: this whole thing now, and I can't guarantee what's going
Speaker 4: to happen, but I can tell you one thing. Accountability
Speaker 4: is something that's happening around here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there was confusion last year and told
Speaker 1: what everybody's jobs were, and we hear Dan Quinn and
Speaker 1: Joey talk about this over and over and over. I
Speaker 1: want to hear the communication and then I'll know that
Speaker 1: we're in the right spot. So there, however you want
Speaker 1: to talk about it, simplifying it, making sure everybody understands
Speaker 1: what their roles are, hopefully not leaving people hung out
Speaker 1: to dry this time. And in the case with Forbes,
Speaker 1: like I think he needs to redo, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was a very tough year on a defense that
Speaker 1: fell to spots. I never thought i'd ever see the
Speaker 1: team fault with the talent that they had on it.
Speaker 1: And he needs to do over again.
Speaker 2: Go to see how it goes.
Speaker 3: But you know, and a lot of that comes from
Speaker 3: Forbes too.
Speaker 4: You know, your coaches can put you in the right spot,
Speaker 4: but also you can do a love studying yourself. And
Speaker 4: I'm not saying he doesn't, but I think you have
Speaker 4: to help yourself out. When I had to switch from
Speaker 4: being a quarterback to doing all these other positions, I
Speaker 4: didn't just wait for practice. Yeah, okay, I had guys.
Speaker 4: The team would tell me, you got to watch more film,
Speaker 4: and don't watch TV.
Speaker 3: You watch film. It's a difference.
Speaker 4: A lot of people say, hey, watching film and they
Speaker 4: finished in what twenty thirty minutes. If you watch a film,
Speaker 4: you're gonna finish in an hour and a half, two hours,
Speaker 4: three hours. Ernest Biner showed me that I was giving
Speaker 4: off signals to the defense about what I was about
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 3: So I had to change those things up.
Speaker 4: And if you want to improve, you got to make
Speaker 4: sure that every time, every moment, you have to make
Speaker 4: yourself better. And that could just be studying for a
Speaker 4: little bit, looking a little bit longer. It can help
Speaker 4: you out for He's to be trying to do that
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other big thing that's happening in the game
Speaker 1: is Andrew Wiley returned. He's missed a lot of time,
Speaker 1: so he's probably gonna start it right tackle. He did
Speaker 1: take part in the practice today. Careelius Lucas is back.
Speaker 1: He missed the game against the Jets. He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: start at left tackle. We're still waiting on Brandon Coleman
Speaker 1: to come back from his injury. Hopefully he'll get into
Speaker 1: the Patriots game. We'll see, but I think this is
Speaker 1: another let's see what we have in front of Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 1: He had one little series. They didn't have either tackle
Speaker 1: that would project to be a starter. Let's see what
Speaker 1: that looks like on Saturday, Nyeah.
Speaker 4: I think when he played against the Jets, then they
Speaker 4: had to call game that basically said that we don't
Speaker 4: have our our right now, I've left tackle this game.
Speaker 4: They could probably call a different game, and then you
Speaker 4: get to see a little more of what you have.
Speaker 4: For a quarterback. You get three to four seconds to
Speaker 4: throw the football. Your office in line is not supposed
Speaker 4: to block eight nine seconds. So if they can block
Speaker 4: three to four seconds and allow Jaden to be able
Speaker 4: to go through his little process and get rid of
Speaker 4: the football, you know, handing it off, and you can
Speaker 4: move the people, and you can have different little plays
Speaker 4: to play action and things like that to throw slow off.
Speaker 3: The rush a little bit. They're going to be fine.
Speaker 4: Ultimately, what it comes down to, I don't know anybody
Speaker 4: ever in the league that just takes on one person
Speaker 4: every game and whips them all the time. You get
Speaker 4: some help. Sometimes you get a chip from the tight end,
Speaker 4: you get a chip from the running back. And I've
Speaker 4: already seen him in the last preseason game where the
Speaker 4: running backs were doing that.
Speaker 3: The tight ends we're doing that.
Speaker 4: So if I saw it in the first game, I
Speaker 4: expect to see it throughout the season. So if Wily
Speaker 4: is back and Lucas's back, you don't just stop helping them.
Speaker 4: You know, it may be just a little bump or
Speaker 4: just my presence may make that guy not want to
Speaker 4: come upfield and he's syst give Luke a better chance,
Speaker 4: or wildly a better chance the offense. The play call
Speaker 4: in a coach can help that out as well. And
Speaker 4: I think I already see Cliff doing that.
Speaker 1: And then today you know they were sharp. And I'm
Speaker 1: always like, I'm gonna be careful because I know they're
Speaker 1: trying to slow roll Jaden here, like they do not
Speaker 1: want to thrust him out there and say that he's
Speaker 1: anything more than what he is, which is a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback who's got a great background and a lot of
Speaker 1: athletics skills, who did a couple of cool things the
Speaker 1: other day that everybody freaked out about. But he hadn't
Speaker 1: played a game yet, and they're trying to like they're
Speaker 1: trying to keep it in the bottle. But if you
Speaker 1: watch this practice today, it's hard not to get excited
Speaker 1: about what's going on here. They were prolific actually early
Speaker 1: in this practice.
Speaker 4: The way I look at it is, we have seen
Speaker 4: a lot in the Washington, DC area, so we like
Speaker 4: to be patient and we like to pump our brakes
Speaker 4: on it. But I stopped looking and listening to the
Speaker 4: people in Washington. Now I start looking at the people
Speaker 4: around the country that has seen him play. And a
Speaker 4: guy today posted that, you know, this rookie is good,
Speaker 4: And at first I thought he was talking about the
Speaker 4: defensive back of Miami, but he's talking about Jade and Daniels.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: And when you have a guy who seems to have
Speaker 4: a control over it, you watch him on the sidelines
Speaker 4: and practice where after play he's talking to the veterans
Speaker 4: about what he expects and where he wants them and
Speaker 4: asking them questions. Normally, rookies, I don't care what position
Speaker 4: you're in, you wait for somebody to talk to you.
Speaker 4: He's initiating it. You know why, because he's there at
Speaker 4: five o'clock in the morning. He's doing all the things
Speaker 4: he needs to do to prepare himself. Hell, he has
Speaker 4: one job, being a quarterback of the Western Commandery, and
Speaker 4: he is taking full advantage of it. Unlike a lot
Speaker 4: of rookies, they come in worried about everything. No, no, no,
Speaker 4: he's taking this bull by the horn and he's running
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 1: You know, his personality matters too, Like he seems like
Speaker 1: a very humble guy, very relatable guy. And he's quiet.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not out there. He's not pushing himself
Speaker 1: out there. His agent's not pushing him out there, the
Speaker 1: team's not pushing him out there. He seems I don't
Speaker 1: want to speak for me. He seems fine with that.
Speaker 1: And you're seeing this to your point more and more.
Speaker 1: If these guys are going to rally around him and
Speaker 1: play for him, it's half the battle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's over half the battle. Yes, they have to
Speaker 3: believe in you first. Yes.
Speaker 4: Like I made a comment and it's kind of about
Speaker 4: the coach, John said. People always talk about all this
Speaker 4: coach can draw up this scheme, This coach can do this,
Speaker 4: he can motivate players.
Speaker 3: The whole thing about it. Can you get somebody to
Speaker 3: buy into what you're selling?
Speaker 4: And dan Quinn is walking in and this coach is
Speaker 4: staff they've gotten all their players to buy in. Well,
Speaker 4: Jayden Daniels, when you get a quarterback. What you have
Speaker 4: to realize is will guys following this person. And I
Speaker 4: think the thing I've seen with Jayden Daniels is like
Speaker 4: he doesn't act as if I'm bigger than everybody else.
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm just a part of the crew.
Speaker 4: And now when I and this is what I've done,
Speaker 4: I've talked more to defensive players about Jayden Danis that
Speaker 4: I did offensive players. They're with him in meetings all
Speaker 4: the time. The other guys are watching him on the field,
Speaker 4: and everyone to the point say he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 4: He throws the ball in the right bab he doesn't
Speaker 4: put the ball in harm's way, and he's a relatable guy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny a week ago when he did the famous
Speaker 1: called out of a place and I wasn't supposed to
Speaker 1: do that, but he did, and then he smiles with
Speaker 1: the sideline. There was part of me that goes, you know,
Speaker 1: unlike Miami, who's going We're just going to practice what
Speaker 1: we do. You can't stop us, like we don't care.
Speaker 1: You'll get this vanilla stuff. I'm hoping in a couple
Speaker 1: of years that's how we are. With Cliff Kingsbury, he
Speaker 1: goes you know what, like, what.
Speaker 4: Do we need to everybody? Joe Gills running the con
Speaker 4: of train and they couldn't stop it. Bring it, you
Speaker 4: can't stop us to just do it. I'm hoping in
Speaker 4: a couple of years that's where we are. But there's
Speaker 4: just part of me that looks at what happened a
Speaker 4: week ago and why it was such a big deal,
Speaker 4: as if like Dan quinnin company don't want anybody to
Speaker 4: know that he's ahead of the curve, that there's a
Speaker 4: little bit of that where they're going. You know what,
Speaker 4: you don't need to show anybody that you know what.
Speaker 4: You know sometimes you can't stop that and not like
Speaker 4: what happened in that situation. I can remember what coach
Speaker 4: Gibbs and we did something in practice and he was like,
Speaker 4: what if we have to put you in that quarterback?
Speaker 3: What do we do? And I was already ahead because
Speaker 3: I didn't wait for us to start. I kept going ahead.
Speaker 4: Basically what Jayden Day has done and what he did
Speaker 4: in that game, he is already knowing what to do
Speaker 4: based off of what.
Speaker 2: Looks eve a glimpse that maybe they didn't want given it.
Speaker 4: They maybe didn't want it to hit but I guarantee
Speaker 4: you they sitting there going, well, damn, this guy is
Speaker 4: already that far advanced.
Speaker 3: You can't hide that. You know, you can sit up
Speaker 3: here and try to hide it.
Speaker 4: But you want him to be able to show you
Speaker 4: what everything he knows, because they are trying to give
Speaker 4: him a little bit at a time to see if
Speaker 4: he can understand and work out what they're doing. Well,
Speaker 4: if he's showing you he can handle it, you start
Speaker 4: putting more instead of having to come out in the
Speaker 4: first game and be a little bit more limited based
Speaker 4: off of what you think he knows. When he shows
Speaker 4: you can know more, you can throw more, and then
Speaker 4: that make it a better opportunity for you to win
Speaker 4: that football.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, like, I think this team
Speaker 1: has gone out of its way to manage expectations differently
Speaker 1: than I've ever seen. Like, we're come on, we're like
Speaker 1: dying to have a franchise quarterback here. I've been waiting
Speaker 1: my whole life down a franchise quarterback here. I mean,
Speaker 1: this team didn't even really have one when they were
Speaker 1: winning Super Bowls. They had guys that came in and
Speaker 1: were played for other teams or had three years, but
Speaker 1: they're not Hall of famers, you know, like we've been
Speaker 1: waiting for this five to ten year run with this
Speaker 1: special player, and I don't know whether it's going to
Speaker 1: be this or not, but they have gone out of
Speaker 1: their way. And I thought what Dan Quinn said the
Speaker 1: other day when they when they kind of followed up
Speaker 1: with why are you so kind of not irked, but like,
Speaker 1: why are you making such a point of him changing
Speaker 1: that play? Don't you want him to do things like that?
Speaker 1: And he was basically like, we're not trying to set
Speaker 1: him up to be good right now. We're trying to
Speaker 1: set him up to be good for his career, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to take this in a process that works
Speaker 1: not only for us, but for him too. And I
Speaker 1: wonder if that restid.
Speaker 3: You know, it resonates because I liken it too.
Speaker 4: When I got here in Washington and when we got
Speaker 4: into the weight room, I was always the Olympic powerlift
Speaker 4: in college and I like to do more things, and
Speaker 4: then I did a lot of plyo stuff and d
Speaker 4: boy Dan rodd in a strength coach. She said, we
Speaker 4: don't set this workout thing for the guy that's in
Speaker 4: the best shape. We set it out for the guy
Speaker 4: that's in the least amount of shape. So basically what
Speaker 4: I get from dan Quinn is their practice is and their.
Speaker 3: Way of coming along is for the guy that know
Speaker 3: a little less.
Speaker 4: But we got this guy here who seem to know
Speaker 4: every damn thing before we want him to know it.
Speaker 4: But when you get somebody a special person like that,
Speaker 4: are you going to hinder him by holding him back?
Speaker 3: Are you're going to allow him to go out there
Speaker 3: and flourish and be who he really is.
Speaker 4: What he does, he makes your team get better, quicker,
Speaker 4: He makes other people work harder. So I think that's
Speaker 4: something they're gonna have to manage it in a proper
Speaker 4: way and not stifle it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the other thing too, and that really stands
Speaker 1: out about what's going on with him and why I
Speaker 1: think his personality fits here is this area and this
Speaker 1: fan base has always not necessarily flocked directly to stars,
Speaker 1: but to hard workers. They like people that put the
Speaker 1: effort in, like they don't need to be big star.
Speaker 1: Like we love Dart Monk, Yeah, love Daryl Green, we
Speaker 1: love you, we love the Hogs, we love the rigo
Speaker 1: out of big personality, right, but like huge, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: love these hard workers and you don't need to be
Speaker 1: some big superstar here for us to kind of fall
Speaker 1: love with the And this is what He's very humble,
Speaker 1: but everybody keeps saying he's putting in the work and
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be ahead of schedule if he wasn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4: Like for me, I'll look at the example always used
Speaker 4: with Alexrvshkin when you hear about how much Alex worked,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, okay, if the best player on your
Speaker 4: team works that hard, nobody else has an excuse as
Speaker 4: to why they need to.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: Now rolls in Jayden Daniels, a guy that comes in
Speaker 4: very nice personality, is not very boisous. W he I
Speaker 4: deserve all this, I want none of all. I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna put into work and see what happens. You think
Speaker 4: the other guys can ever sit up here and make
Speaker 4: a complaint or an excuse as to why they can't
Speaker 4: work harder when the guy who comes in, who probably
Speaker 4: can act a certain way, who doesn't, but he puts
Speaker 4: all the work in. I think when you can get
Speaker 4: those type of players in those parks, and let's flip
Speaker 4: it to Mikey Severn still okay. He's a guy on
Speaker 4: the other side of the ball who plays a position
Speaker 4: that cornerback, Nico or whatever you want to come. They
Speaker 4: are there some MEMI me type people, but the guy
Speaker 4: does everything you need to do to show others what
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 3: He's a leader. So when you get those guys on
Speaker 3: your team.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine those two guys standing around for seven
Speaker 4: ten years and they're working the way that they do
Speaker 4: and what the people follow them like they're doing.
Speaker 3: Now, what can happen with this team? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The other guy I want to talk to you about
Speaker 1: in the position group. I want to talk about a receiver.
Speaker 1: I think it's very much in question as we go
Speaker 1: into this game. I think there's a lot of interesting
Speaker 1: dynamics that are going on. But I want to start
Speaker 1: with Deanmi Brown for a minute, because he made the
Speaker 1: big catch last week and to this point of like
Speaker 1: guys who are putting effort in and are just waiting
Speaker 1: for opportunity, he's the epitome of it. Like this is
Speaker 1: year four. He hasn't had a lot of opportunity, but
Speaker 1: through the years, if you've paid attention, he is a
Speaker 1: willing participant. On special teams. He will go cover kicks,
Speaker 1: he will block on the outside. He hasn't gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity, and all of a sudden, I think
Speaker 1: you're seeing all of that kind of manifest here, and
Speaker 1: I think this staff sees it in him, which is
Speaker 1: why I think he's getting more and more and more opportunity.
Speaker 4: And I think what happens is sometimes guys come in
Speaker 4: and they overwhelm my some things.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that that's how he was.
Speaker 4: That can happen with guys sometimes and you're trying to
Speaker 4: find your way.
Speaker 3: Let's be real.
Speaker 4: In college, when you're the top guy, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, don't play special teams. The NFL is a
Speaker 4: totally different story. You get paid big money to play
Speaker 4: special team. And I think the IMI now where it's
Speaker 4: gone at light bulbs going on, where I'm in my
Speaker 4: fourth year now, and these people might believe in me
Speaker 4: a little more.
Speaker 3: I have to make plays.
Speaker 4: And I watched him catch balls in practice from every quarterback.
Speaker 4: He's running full speed down the field. Like you said,
Speaker 4: he's a willing to participant in special team. That shows
Speaker 4: a certain level of toughness that coaches may like to see.
Speaker 4: So he's getting his opportunity now and I'm happy for
Speaker 4: him so much. Okay, I'm happy because getting rewarded for
Speaker 4: this when it finally starts to come play. And I
Speaker 4: hear a lot of people on social media and all saying, well,
Speaker 4: he does it every.
Speaker 3: Year around this time in training camp.
Speaker 4: It seems a little different this year, and I'm thinking
Speaker 4: that he's ready to take that step in the football
Speaker 4: fair Only what people do is people always talking about
Speaker 4: contract years and things like that. I always tell them
Speaker 4: people normally around third year, year three four is when
Speaker 4: people really hit their stride.
Speaker 3: Yes, So maybe he's just hitting.
Speaker 4: This dride because contract year comes up normally that fourth
Speaker 4: or fifth year, and that's when guys only play better.
Speaker 4: Why not because they're in the contract year. Because now
Speaker 4: I have a comfortability to what I know what to do.
Speaker 4: I know what is expected of me, and I know
Speaker 4: how to get it.
Speaker 1: You can play harder, but you can't play better unless
Speaker 1: you know what you're doing. And I think that's where
Speaker 1: we are a little bit with him. I think it's
Speaker 1: kind of coming at the right time where the opportunities
Speaker 1: are coming. They're gonna profile Luke McCaffrey third round pick.
Speaker 1: They haven't seen a lot from him in camp. What
Speaker 1: do you think he needs to show this weekend?
Speaker 4: Well, I think the thing I noticed a little bit
Speaker 4: throughout campus. They want to they want they have an
Speaker 4: idea of him doing multiple things, and I think at
Speaker 4: this point he needs to just show that you could
Speaker 4: do one of them real good, and then the other
Speaker 4: stuff you know, you can learn it. It's gonna come
Speaker 4: along to you. Luke is a guy where I think
Speaker 4: they want to see him in the slot. They might
Speaker 4: probably want to see him in the backfield doing some things.
Speaker 4: When you come from a family like that, and if
Speaker 4: your brother name is Christian McCaffrey, don't I don't know
Speaker 4: what you can show not show, but they're gonna try
Speaker 4: to see if you.
Speaker 3: Can do some of the things he does. And you
Speaker 3: would think that because I was.
Speaker 4: I have four brothers, all my brothers, I tried to
Speaker 4: do something from them, and luckily God gave me enough
Speaker 4: ability to As I got older, I was betting all
Speaker 4: of them and everything.
Speaker 3: But I took something from.
Speaker 4: Everybody, you know, and I'm guaranteeing you Adam Peters when
Speaker 4: he drafted him, is expecting some of that Christian to
Speaker 4: Be and Luke, and they want to see whatevery. I
Speaker 4: think it's just squ out there, show that you know everything.
Speaker 4: That's just like yo yo yo, you know how to
Speaker 4: go out and do your techniques. She got you, got
Speaker 4: all the schemes down. But then if you get an
Speaker 4: opportunity to show the special part of you, he can
Speaker 4: pick them up and put them down.
Speaker 1: The family's everywhere. The oldest brother, Max is actually a
Speaker 1: coach on the Dolphins. He's an assistant here, so he'll
Speaker 1: be coaching tomorrow night against his brother, all right, So
Speaker 1: thatleads me to John Dotson. So here's McCaffrey. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get profiled. I think they want to see what he
Speaker 1: can do. We know who Terry is. They love the kiss,
Speaker 1: like you're seeing it more and more and more. And
Speaker 1: we talked about Tami. So where's Jahan fitting in all
Speaker 1: of this?
Speaker 4: To you, Johan Dotson, I'm gonna show you what he fits.
Speaker 4: What he was in his rookie season. Okay, he showed
Speaker 4: what he's capable of.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Last year wasn't the year that he had in his
Speaker 4: rookie season, and there was some injuries here and there.
Speaker 4: What Jahan Dotson has to do now is go on
Speaker 4: the football field and do the things you did as
Speaker 4: a rookie to make people say that this guy is special.
Speaker 4: We got to get him a chance. I really believe
Speaker 4: that Johan is. The other guys have made these plays.
Speaker 4: He's on the football field too. Now he could go
Speaker 4: make those plays. So the ultimate thing is all you
Speaker 4: got to do is go out there and keep being
Speaker 4: who you are a lot of times people think you
Speaker 4: gotta become something else. No, he has to just go
Speaker 4: out and make the plays because they have a Listen,
Speaker 4: here's the first round grade, not just for Washington, for
Speaker 4: multiple teams out there. So all of these coaches understand
Speaker 4: he can play well, say, oh he was drafted to
Speaker 4: do high. No, so he was he to get drafted?
Speaker 4: What three spots lower? What are you talking about? He
Speaker 4: just has to go out there and play, you know.
Speaker 4: And that's all and the thing of it, it ain't nothing.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying. The coach is saying it. He's telling
Speaker 4: you the receivers that have come out and overly impressed.
Speaker 4: And if I'm in that receiver room and I hear
Speaker 4: him talking about Diami, I hear him talking about I
Speaker 4: mean Luke, I am talking about o Z. I'm going
Speaker 4: to say, well, I got to show something too. That's
Speaker 4: just the way I'm wired. And I think anybody that
Speaker 4: plays this game at this level to get to this point,
Speaker 4: you've had to overcome some stuff. You have to compete
Speaker 4: against the people, you have to fight some people to
Speaker 4: get to where you are. He just got to go
Speaker 4: back to where he was as a young kid where
Speaker 4: he wanted to prove stuff to people and be that guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, because like, and people are gonna have seen this
Speaker 1: because he did an interview after the practice again and
Speaker 1: I've seen this multiple times where he's done interviews or
Speaker 1: groups of reporters and he talks about his confidence. And
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there going your first round pick who had
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns as a rookie with frankly bad quarterbacking.
Speaker 2: Like, what what the thing? I confidence? What do you
Speaker 2: mean we're asking about your con You know you can
Speaker 2: do this?
Speaker 3: Like what are you talking about here? And then the
Speaker 3: thing about it?
Speaker 4: It's like I think people will have to understand a
Speaker 4: lot of things start based off a certain thing. Like
Speaker 4: when you start talking about your confidence, normally you lacking it.
Speaker 4: You don't feel like you're confidently comfortable in doing what
Speaker 4: you know you can do.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here wanting to shake him, going, I know
Speaker 1: you're good, man, and see we all know you're good.
Speaker 3: If you're questioning yourself, just go out there and just
Speaker 3: let it go. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, I've had moments in my career where I
Speaker 4: had two fumos in early in the game. I go
Speaker 4: on the sideline and I was like, man, I don't
Speaker 4: know what's going on, dude Staill and say, boy, being
Speaker 4: who you are.
Speaker 3: The next pub time, I went fifty something yards.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we just got to get out of our own
Speaker 4: way and just let things react instead of overthinking it all.
Speaker 1: Right, overall, anything else stayed out to you that you
Speaker 1: want to see against the Dolphins this weekend, I want.
Speaker 3: To keep saying the effort. I'm want to keep saying
Speaker 3: the speed.
Speaker 4: And then again, you know, I don't know exactly how
Speaker 4: long Jayden is gonna play, but I want to see
Speaker 4: how the offensive line is going to work. When I
Speaker 4: look at the phys because for me, everybody else is
Speaker 4: looking at Jayden, they're looking at Johann, they're looking at
Speaker 4: the Mikey. I'm really looking at the old line. D
Speaker 4: line that leads your football team. I want to see
Speaker 4: how these guys are gonna go out here and dominate
Speaker 4: offensive line. My best wall watching the game is from
Speaker 4: the side of the field and watching the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: And I want to see who's gonna be getting knocked back.
Speaker 4: And I damn sure hope it's not gonna be anybody
Speaker 4: in Burger and Gold.
Speaker 1: And I think defensively, I mean, I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: quote unquote game plans here, but I could see where
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn and Joe Witt need to have a discussion
Speaker 1: with their unit. These guys are going to show what
Speaker 1: they do. They're they're gonna put Tua out there, They're
Speaker 1: gonna put people in motion, They're gonna have a track
Speaker 1: team run around out there. This is one of those
Speaker 1: times where it might be I don't know that we're
Speaker 1: game planning, but we want to see how you guys react,
Speaker 1: because this is execution in the NFL at its finest
Speaker 1: currently and they're not scared to do it in the preseason.
Speaker 2: Let's see how you react to it.
Speaker 4: As I said today, I think Washington looked like they belonged. Okay,
Speaker 4: And I say this, everyone look at it and they
Speaker 4: act like Tyreek Hill, Oh, he just got Washington. Last year,
Speaker 4: Tyrek Hill had almost eighteen hundred yards receiving, so he
Speaker 4: got everybody.
Speaker 3: Okay, the dude played seventeen games. He had seventeen hundred ninety.
Speaker 4: Nine yards, So that lets you know how good he is.
Speaker 4: I think you go into this game and you play.
Speaker 4: He may get you sometimes, but if the overall game
Speaker 4: is where you held him in check and you handled
Speaker 4: your own, that's all you need to see. Because basically
Speaker 4: last year a lot of teams proved that you can't
Speaker 4: stop it.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: They were by far the best offense. Devin ah Chan
Speaker 1: had the best per rust average NFL history with at
Speaker 1: least one hundred carries in a season seven point three.
Speaker 1: They were the best per rush average. Like people think
Speaker 1: about the throwing down the field, hill and all stuff.
Speaker 1: They were the best rush team in the NFL a
Speaker 1: year ago. They are execution at its finest right now
Speaker 1: in the McDaniel gets a lot of credit for this,
Speaker 1: and they have very good personnel, but this is execution
Speaker 1: at its finest.
Speaker 2: This is an incredible test.
Speaker 4: When you have receivers that run like that and look
Speaker 4: that running back room might be able to keep it
Speaker 4: up with those receivers.
Speaker 3: Yes, So when you.
Speaker 1: Have that type rookie that they got out of Tennessee
Speaker 1: who's like a tick behind Chan, they've got another speed
Speaker 1: running back.
Speaker 4: When you have that type of speed on your team,
Speaker 4: you can confuse and have a lot of people messing
Speaker 4: up because what you're trying to do. You know how
Speaker 4: fast they are naturally, so you like thinking, I can't
Speaker 4: let them get behind me.
Speaker 3: Do you bail too soon and leave you a lot
Speaker 3: of space? You know? So they have to really know
Speaker 3: what they're doing. And I think the way you.
Speaker 4: Stop the speed just straw them up front with the
Speaker 4: big guys and get to the quarterback.
Speaker 3: That's Bee slows.
Speaker 1: Down real quick and we'll say, all right, Brian, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, appreciate having this with you. You can watch
Speaker 1: Brian with Chickernandez and Brian Colbert Junior on the preseason
Speaker 1: broadcast on WUSA locally, and you can hear me Logan
Speaker 1: and London on the call of the game. Dolphins Commanders,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us for the special edition of Booth Review.