Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome into camping out with Zach Selby. Where
Speaker 1: the rain might scare with some of these reporters, but
Speaker 1: not me, like Leonardo DiCaprio. The show goes on over
Speaker 1: here in Ashburne. And now we have David Harrison for
Speaker 1: Sports Illusford here to get his takes on the Panthers
Speaker 1: game last Saturday, as well as would look forward to
Speaker 1: in week four, Friendicamp and the Kansas City Chiefs pre
Speaker 1: game in week two. Let's go here what he had
Speaker 1: to say, and also you will hear some takes from
Speaker 1: me as I'll give my thoughts on what happened today
Speaker 1: at practice. And now we have the guy who travels
Speaker 1: back and forth from Tampa to DC. We have David
Speaker 1: Harrison Sports Illustrated. David, you know, in between the time
Speaker 1: that you were looking at the Bucks, you also have
Speaker 1: the chance to watch the Commanders game against the Panthers.
Speaker 1: What were some of your key takeaways from that? I
Speaker 1: think first foremost you have to be impressed with Brian Robinson.
Speaker 1: Did you know all through campot, I mean, honesty started
Speaker 1: with rookie Minicamp. I mean we're being real about it.
Speaker 1: The media workroom as soon as he was picked like,
Speaker 1: that's when the excitement really started about Brian Robinson Junior.
Speaker 1: And you could really you kind of felt like you
Speaker 1: could see where the team was going with that pick
Speaker 1: and you could understand it, and of course that always
Speaker 1: helps with the anticipation. But then just seeing the physicality,
Speaker 1: the style of run, and what's happening on the island
Speaker 1: with Randy Jordan when he's coaching him up and how
Speaker 1: he's kind of improving through that coaching, and then seeing
Speaker 1: him once the pads come on against his own teammates.
Speaker 1: You kind of just really wanted to see him go
Speaker 1: against the team and he could fit, he get hit
Speaker 1: full speed without getting in trouble, right, and then as
Speaker 1: soon as you see him up on the field, I mean,
Speaker 1: first first carrier the game is eleven yards, you just
Speaker 1: feel that excitement and it only got better from there.
Speaker 1: Now unfortunately comes off the tails of an Antonio Gibson fumble,
Speaker 1: so that's, you know, not the way you want to
Speaker 1: see him get his start, but at least from a
Speaker 1: from a holistic standpoint, just from Ryan Robinson standpoint, very
Speaker 1: promising in the first week of preseason. You know, one
Speaker 1: of the things that I was excited about Brian Robinson
Speaker 1: as well. When he got drafted. One think that was
Speaker 1: really concerned about seeing from him is that the holes
Speaker 1: on the running ways are not going to be Alabama open, right.
Speaker 1: They're not going to just open up like the parting
Speaker 1: of the Red Sea here. They're going to be opening
Speaker 1: up as you're hitting, edge're hitting the hole where it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be. I was worried he would have to
Speaker 1: take some time to adjust about for that, But doesn't
Speaker 1: look like he really has that problem. He's very patient
Speaker 1: with what he's able to do right Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: been very fluid behind the line of scrimmage and practice.
Speaker 1: I think you saw that a little bit in the
Speaker 1: game as well. His field vision, his ability to kind
Speaker 1: of understand where the line is going to go, how
Speaker 1: he fits into where the line is going to go,
Speaker 1: when what the defense is doing. It seems to be
Speaker 1: really kind of elevated. And I think coming out of Alabama,
Speaker 1: a lot of people kind of expect that kind of
Speaker 1: a product coming from some of these guys, especially though
Speaker 1: the success that the running backs have had, and I
Speaker 1: think Brian Robinson is showing that early on. Now we
Speaker 1: have to talk a little bit at least a little
Speaker 1: bit about Carson Wentz because you know, he is the
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. After all, Hey of ten of thirteen seventy
Speaker 1: four yards three drives pretty efficient. I mean, it seems
Speaker 1: like the momentum he had in week three, you know,
Speaker 1: heading end of week two that he had in practice,
Speaker 1: seems to be carrying or do you see a lot
Speaker 1: of the same thing that he's been showing a practice
Speaker 1: to show up on the field. Absolutely, And you know,
Speaker 1: I think that most people when they saw Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: on the field on Saturday, maybe it took them a
Speaker 1: little bit by surprise because you have some media takes,
Speaker 1: you have some fans in attendance and their takes of
Speaker 1: what's going on. But I think, you know, talking to
Speaker 1: some of the guys on the sidelines over the weeks
Speaker 1: of training camp, where you kind of notice is you know,
Speaker 1: they go through, they put their install in, they kind
Speaker 1: of walk through it, and then you see Carson and
Speaker 1: I think, just like most quarterbacks in the NFL, takes
Speaker 1: a little bit Okay, this guy's gonna go here, this
Speaker 1: guy's gonna go here. So if I see this, read
Speaker 1: I want this, and all those things you see a
Speaker 1: little bit those growing pains, but then once they get
Speaker 1: kind of running those plays live, you see him get
Speaker 1: more comfortable. You see him make those decisions quicker. And
Speaker 1: when you look on the field on Saturday, a lot
Speaker 1: of what you saw on that field you saw during
Speaker 1: training camp and you saw it during the lead up
Speaker 1: to the first game. So you have a quarterback now
Speaker 1: who's gone through the install to walk through the full speed,
Speaker 1: and now he's doing it and gets a live opponent.
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing the byproduct of all that coaching
Speaker 1: and all that repetition come out. So from my standpoint,
Speaker 1: I wasn't so much surprised as what we were seeing
Speaker 1: Carson on Saturday. More is I was encouraged because it
Speaker 1: shows that what you were expecting on the field. Talking
Speaker 1: to a couple of the media guys over texts while
Speaker 1: the game was going on, we were all like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is exactly what we expected to see. Take that
Speaker 1: next step against live defenses, and you hope to see
Speaker 1: that continue because now you're in install more sering to
Speaker 1: see more fan takes and some more media takes about
Speaker 1: a little bit of a rough dated day and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But again it's part of the install and
Speaker 1: growth process that they're going through. I thought that third
Speaker 1: drive was really really crisp. I mean, fourteen plays eighty
Speaker 1: two yards. I mean, no matter who you're playing against
Speaker 1: or what situation is, that's exactly what you want at
Speaker 1: any offense. And you know, Curtis Samuel was also out
Speaker 1: there getting some reps. I mean, he looked pretty much
Speaker 1: like the Curtis Samuel that we were expecting him to look, right. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I love that for the fans too, because you know,
Speaker 1: sitting here in practice, we've all kind of talked about that.
Speaker 1: You know, you hear the process. You hear that, you
Speaker 1: know we got a plan in place, and you know,
Speaker 1: a little nervous. You see him set out like the
Speaker 1: three practices in our open then you see him on
Speaker 1: the field. He looks good. So it was good for
Speaker 1: the fans to see that. You saw him in FedEx
Speaker 1: Field for for the practice the week before, and I
Speaker 1: think fans got comfortable to them. Then you see him
Speaker 1: the game, run around, see him out here today. He
Speaker 1: looks really crisp still, and so you can see that
Speaker 1: he looks like a healthier version of Curtis Samuel. So
Speaker 1: even if maybe he misses a couple of practices before Casey.
Speaker 1: Now you can you can quote unquote trust what coach
Speaker 1: of Varia is saying. Not that you shouldn't anyway, but
Speaker 1: you can trust it more because you're seeing the product
Speaker 1: on the field. Oh look, this is a Ron Rivera
Speaker 1: We Trust podcast, So just don't worry about that. But
Speaker 1: everyone a talked about the plan, the plan, the plan
Speaker 1: for Curtis Samuel and everyone's like, well, we really want
Speaker 1: to see him out there. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, as long as seeing him out there on
Speaker 1: Sunday dollar really matters. Yeah, I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: want to see him against Casey, you want to see
Speaker 1: him against Baltimore, got it. But you need to see
Speaker 1: him against Jacksonville, Detroit, Philly, Dallas and so on. And
Speaker 1: that's that's where the team's focused. And again it looks
Speaker 1: like it's working beautifully, So I mean, don't argue with
Speaker 1: the process absolutely. And last one here is we're going
Speaker 1: him next now to Kansas City and you know we're
Speaker 1: gonna get I guess this this second. He will be
Speaker 1: the dress rehearsal with you know, going back from three
Speaker 1: preseason games, what are you both looking forward to see
Speaker 1: one in the week leading up to the game and
Speaker 1: two in the game itself. Just physicality on the on
Speaker 1: the field, you know, giving each other good work team
Speaker 1: to team. But I think when you're going again go
Speaker 1: up against Kansas City, what I really liked from the
Speaker 1: defensive standpoint for Washington against that Carolina Panthers offense is
Speaker 1: you really got different types of quarterbacks all throughout the game,
Speaker 1: starting with Baker Mayfield and Sam Arnold, who were kind
Speaker 1: of similar, I think archetypes of quarterbacks, but they kind
Speaker 1: of approached the game differently, and then p J. Walker
Speaker 1: and even Matt Carrel bring a different layer to any
Speaker 1: really challenged the defense. And I think he probably the
Speaker 1: coach is a lot of film to really study off
Speaker 1: of and teach off of. And now you come in
Speaker 1: and expecting, right, Patrick Mahomes hopefully he's going to be
Speaker 1: on the field, and they've got a stable of running backs.
Speaker 1: The thing is interesting because they all kind of bring
Speaker 1: a different flavor to the field as well. So as
Speaker 1: these running backs get involved, and then obviously one of the
Speaker 1: the lower electric offenses in the NFL, I think the
Speaker 1: Washington coaching staff from a defensive standpoint, is going to
Speaker 1: have a lot of teachable film taking from this from
Speaker 1: a lot of different styles, and you pair that with
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. They saw it last week and I think
Speaker 1: coming into week three and in in the end of training camp,
Speaker 1: you got a lot of teachable moments you can take
Speaker 1: into the regular season. Yeah. I think obviously we would
Speaker 1: all love for them to go three and oh you
Speaker 1: know in the preseason. But the reality, as long as
Speaker 1: you can get good reps out there and get live
Speaker 1: game situations to build off of, really all that matters.
Speaker 1: But David, I always appreciate you having a man. I
Speaker 1: feel like I want to give some thoughts on you
Speaker 1: know what you know this day of practice, what was
Speaker 1: going on for me, The biggest standout was Danny Brown
Speaker 1: on the offense. He had four catches today and he
Speaker 1: looked really Crisp made a really really nice sideline grab
Speaker 1: they're working against Kenda Fuller had another one again, um,
Speaker 1: you know against another DV against on seven or seven
Speaker 1: and I think you know this this uh this year two.
Speaker 1: He said, he's really gonna be a big one for him.
Speaker 1: He's been working a lot on his routes, been working
Speaker 1: a lot on his knowledge of the offense and it's
Speaker 1: really clicking a lot. He didn't have that many opportunities
Speaker 1: during the preseason game, but I think that's gonna come
Speaker 1: a lot more, uh, you know, against the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: in the final preseason game against the preseason undefeated Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens at least at the time of this recording. So
Speaker 1: we'll see where that goes. Um. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Downy Browns took out a lot. He's been one of
Speaker 1: my players to watch all camp. Carson Wentz, I think looked,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty much. I think someone's considered maybe an
Speaker 1: off day, but I considered it probably a solid day.
Speaker 1: He had. He was four for six and seven on seven. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, had a really nice throw to Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: who is it's right down thread of the the middle
Speaker 1: of the of the defense, right there between two linebackers.
Speaker 1: Another thing, Curtis Samuel also looked pretty good today. Looks
Speaker 1: more and more like Curtis Samuel with every practice. I
Speaker 1: think that's really good to see. I think you look
Speaker 1: on the running back side of things, if you look
Speaker 1: at Brian Robinson again still looking crisp out there, looking
Speaker 1: looking like a really true running back. I think that
Speaker 1: was really impressive. And I think on the defense, you know,
Speaker 1: Jamie Davis, you keep seeing the growth more, you keep
Speaker 1: seeing the development. Uh. You know. Ronevera was very complimentary
Speaker 1: of him during his evaluation of the film his media availability,
Speaker 1: talking about how you fit you know, a really nice
Speaker 1: run a run hole there on Saturday's game and really
Speaker 1: kind of blew up a play. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: with with Jamie Davis, you're I think the thing is,
Speaker 1: you're not going to see a whole lot of you know,
Speaker 1: these flashy plays. You're not gonna see these standout players,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna see a lot of really good plays
Speaker 1: you but don't show up on the stat sheet say Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy could be an impact player, just not in
Speaker 1: you know, the the boisterous way that you would you
Speaker 1: would expect, you know. I those big plays will come eventually,
Speaker 1: but I think for now, his development and growth are
Speaker 1: really the priority. That's all we have for you today.
Speaker 1: But be sure and check out your daily Command Center
Speaker 1: camp coverage every weekday on the Commander's YouTube channel. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go back to my tent because I basically live
Speaker 1: here like everybody else, and I will see you tomorrow.