Speaker 1: What's Good Command his Family?
Speaker 2: I'm Brian Corple Junior and this is season two of
Speaker 2: the Next Man Up Podcast. Jayden Daniels pulls up and
Speaker 2: talks about being named the QB one and what his
Speaker 2: expectations are for this season.
Speaker 1: And then we got a legend in the building. That's right.
Speaker 2: Doug Williams pulls up to talk about Jayden Daniels but
Speaker 2: also to talk about giving back to.
Speaker 1: The game that he loves so much. That's all. Now
Speaker 1: our next man.
Speaker 3: Up, What's good Command his Family?
Speaker 2: Brian Copple Junior here, and this is the Next Man
Speaker 2: Up Podcast. We talk to your favorite comand as players.
Speaker 2: Not so much about the exit and o's more about
Speaker 2: the player under the helmet. And our next man up
Speaker 2: is no one better than our new names Starr and
Speaker 2: quarterback Rookie Jade and Daniels.
Speaker 1: Jayden good the seed you brother? Yeah, I appreciate you
Speaker 1: having you here.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get right into it because you were just
Speaker 2: named the started man, So I need you to take
Speaker 2: me back there.
Speaker 1: Man, where were you at? When did you find out?
Speaker 1: Tell me everything?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was on Monday. I was chilling the quarterback
Speaker 4: room talking with Charlie PR Guy, PR Guy, Charlie PR
Speaker 4: Guy over talking about Lakers and Nick's basketball stuff. Next thing,
Speaker 4: you know, DQ just walked in and he was like,
Speaker 4: I talked to Jayden. From there, we're kind of just
Speaker 4: having a conversation about, you know, my routine and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. And then he tried to slide it under there.
Speaker 4: But that's when I found out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was that like, man?
Speaker 2: Because it sounds like when Dad quit talks. He's just
Speaker 2: so casual and chill about everything. So like, what was
Speaker 2: your first thought when he hit you like just slid
Speaker 2: it in.
Speaker 4: Like okay, like but it didn't really register in my mind.
Speaker 4: I was kind of thinking about my routine and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. And then from that I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: and then we had a conversation. I was just telling him,
Speaker 4: thank you, appreciate all that.
Speaker 2: And when and when that did settle, when you really realize,
Speaker 2: like the moment, who was the first person you called
Speaker 2: the shit the news with?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I called my mom, told her first,
Speaker 4: and they called my dad. I told him so it
Speaker 4: was too I told everybody else. Had to keep it
Speaker 4: on the rise until it came out.
Speaker 2: I mean, you had to have been dreaming about that
Speaker 2: moment your entire life. Man, So now that you've been there,
Speaker 2: now you're on the back end of it, because it's
Speaker 2: hard to really be in the moment during those times.
Speaker 1: What was that moment for you, man? What was going
Speaker 1: through your head? Man? What sat in with you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't think it kind of hit me until
Speaker 4: I got home, kind of able to gout in my thoughts.
Speaker 4: But it was a very surreal moment because growing up,
Speaker 4: you know, loving the game of football, watching NFL Sunday,
Speaker 4: you see one of the thirty two out there, you know,
Speaker 4: playing quarterbacks, so all you drenk the being one and
Speaker 4: and I'm grate the opportunity to be one of those.
Speaker 2: You talk about dreaming of being that starring quarterback. When
Speaker 2: do you think that dream hit when you're like, this
Speaker 2: is what I want to do. I want to be
Speaker 2: an NFL player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it started very young. I want to say, like
Speaker 4: eight nine years old, kind of around the time when
Speaker 4: I started playing football and they got you know, you
Speaker 4: kind of venture off, and then I got it to
Speaker 4: the basketball phase and then kind of like eighth grade,
Speaker 4: going to high school is kind of where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I could really do something with this football thing and
Speaker 4: take it very serious. And that's when around the time
Speaker 4: I put that on my wall. You know, I was
Speaker 4: play in the NFL. I didn't know where I get
Speaker 4: drafted to. I just knew that I have the opportunity
Speaker 4: to play in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And now you're here.
Speaker 2: Man, Now we've seen you for two preseason games, so
Speaker 2: I want to I want to take it back. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk a little bit about the future, but
Speaker 2: I gonn take it back little bit.
Speaker 1: Talk about that.
Speaker 2: First preseason game pull up in the Doug Williams jersey
Speaker 2: going viral. Now, I know you've been asked this before,
Speaker 2: but I really want to know. Why was that so
Speaker 2: important for you to take this moment? It's all about you. Now,
Speaker 2: this is your first NFL game, but you took this
Speaker 2: moment to pay homage to somebody that's in it before you.
Speaker 1: Was that so important?
Speaker 4: It was actually crazy. I mean, I'm in my closet,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think about, Okay, what I'm gonnaware.
Speaker 1: Laying out the first day of school.
Speaker 4: Fel I'm in the closet, thame I want't wear? And
Speaker 4: then I remember fanatics when I went up there for
Speaker 4: Rookie premiere they had they sent me a Doug Williams jersey,
Speaker 4: so it's just in my closet. I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: it wasn't like Okay, I knew. I mean what Doug
Speaker 4: did hear, what he meant, what he means to this franchise,
Speaker 4: his organization, and what he means for me being a
Speaker 4: mentor being somebody I could go and talk to that
Speaker 4: looks like me, that that's done it here, so be
Speaker 4: able to go out there and throw on that jersey
Speaker 4: and you know, just represent him, especially in the first
Speaker 4: one where I knew a lot of odds are gonna
Speaker 4: be on me, you know, especially walking through for my
Speaker 4: first preseason game, and it just meant a lot to
Speaker 4: pay how much to show him that the respect that
Speaker 4: he deserves.
Speaker 2: And not everybody gets to walk into a building with
Speaker 2: guys like Doug Williams, Guys like Santana Mons, these.
Speaker 1: Legends that have stayed here for you, guys, for these players.
Speaker 2: What game have you gotten from Doug Williams leading up
Speaker 2: to that preseason game that made you say, you know what,
Speaker 2: this is a guy I'm gonna be able to talk
Speaker 2: to about anything.
Speaker 4: Man, Just go out there and be me like like
Speaker 4: he tells me all the time, just be you. You
Speaker 4: have to trying to be anybody else, do anything out
Speaker 4: of the ordination. Go out there, play a game. There's
Speaker 4: a reason why he here, is the reason why God
Speaker 4: bless you to be here. So it's kind of the
Speaker 4: biggest main points I take away from talking with him.
Speaker 2: Well, man, you ain't waste no time showing us why
Speaker 2: you belong in that field.
Speaker 1: Man. That first drive very interesting. You know.
Speaker 2: Talked to Austin Eckler after that first drive and I
Speaker 2: asked him. I was like, what was he like in
Speaker 2: that pocket? And he kind of revealed to us that,
Speaker 2: you know, you you checked out of a play because
Speaker 2: you saw something there and you wanted to make an
Speaker 2: audible and make a play in your own words, because
Speaker 2: a lot was made of that, right Dad Quinn talked
Speaker 2: about your own words. Man, what was that moment like
Speaker 2: and what made you say, you know, after this incomplete pass,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go check it down the field.
Speaker 4: It was kind of crazy because I mean the whole
Speaker 4: week it was like, yeah, nah, it's just I'm like, man,
Speaker 4: I kind of came. I was like, man, just let
Speaker 4: me throw a deep you know, Cliff and DQ and
Speaker 4: all that, you know, kind of nah, like you know,
Speaker 4: so called the screen on third down and it wasn't
Speaker 4: the look that I wanted or anybody wanted. So I know,
Speaker 4: over a Cliff's head, He's like, man, he was about
Speaker 4: to check it. Because I'm like I seen him. I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, I'm about to check it. So I did
Speaker 4: to be able to kind of like, I guess in
Speaker 4: a sense clause like, man, you manifested this in a
Speaker 4: sense you did. I mean, I guess so. But it
Speaker 4: was just funny. That's why I pointed to the sidelines
Speaker 4: because I know and they head was like like, now
Speaker 4: we want you to do it, but we're happy about
Speaker 4: the result and stuff like that. So it was fun
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 2: That's a rookie. How much comfortability does that give you?
Speaker 2: Knowing that even in those moments where you're maybe doing
Speaker 2: something that they said, hey, man, maybe this isn't a
Speaker 2: good idea, but knowing that.
Speaker 1: They still trust you to do the right thing. Man,
Speaker 1: How important is that for rookie?
Speaker 4: Man, that's the biggest thing. Showed me to have my back.
Speaker 4: They trust me and believe in me. So that's a
Speaker 4: huge thing. And that's what they preacher. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then right after that, man, you go and get
Speaker 2: your first NFL touchdown. And you know a lot of
Speaker 2: people in those moments hit a little silly little dance
Speaker 2: cheer with their teammates, maybe even their coaches, and everybody
Speaker 2: was going crazy. I was on the sideline too. All
Speaker 2: of us are yelling and going crazy. You run past everybody,
Speaker 2: go to the stands, go find your mom and give
Speaker 2: it that football. Why was that so important for you
Speaker 2: to do that in that moment?
Speaker 4: It was huge? I mean, pregame, she's on the sideline.
Speaker 4: I look over and I go over. She like she's
Speaker 4: getting emotional because she like, you know, she seeing me
Speaker 4: this is a dream of mine that now she can
Speaker 4: see it become reality. So I know she get emotional
Speaker 4: and obviously shout out to Terry because I don't know
Speaker 4: what I blacked out so I even had the ball,
Speaker 4: so he gave me the ball first thing I seen
Speaker 4: him right there. So a start of the football, man,
Speaker 4: it meant a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Man, and your mom and your other family there
Speaker 2: every game, role game, home game that's coming up, man,
Speaker 2: training camp, they just show up for you and they
Speaker 2: support you. Even though they're not from here, They're not
Speaker 2: from you at all. How important is that to have
Speaker 2: them a part of this journey with you? Man?
Speaker 4: It's huge supports. So there's nothing no matter how good
Speaker 4: I played, no matter how bad I played, Man, they
Speaker 4: gonna still love me the same. They can always support me,
Speaker 4: always have my back. So it's huge for them to
Speaker 4: be able to be a part of this journey.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: And now you're in it. Man, two games in, bro,
Speaker 2: nothing's new for you anymore. Right now you're in it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have your first NFL game on the road
Speaker 2: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What are you expecting from
Speaker 2: yourself in that first game? Have you set expectations for yourself?
Speaker 2: Or you just going to out there and let it fly?
Speaker 4: Man, go out there, let it fly. It wouldn't be
Speaker 4: no expectation for me. Try to do everything in my
Speaker 4: power to help lead the team to a win. That's
Speaker 4: the main thing, that's the main focus. You know, we
Speaker 4: want to start. I want to know and.
Speaker 2: Everybody talks about I mean even right now I'm sitting
Speaker 2: there talking to you, when everybody said it, you're wise
Speaker 2: beyond your years.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: You talk like somebody that's been here before, not like
Speaker 2: a rookie. But what are those challenges you face so
Speaker 2: far being here and how have you overcome those challenges?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean DQ whole staff, even the veterans, they've
Speaker 4: been done a great job, not just for myself but
Speaker 4: all the rookies, you know, making this feel as part
Speaker 4: as the team, not making us feel like you know,
Speaker 4: or a rookie. So whether as leadership wise, you know,
Speaker 4: picking your spots, knowing what, be able to go out
Speaker 4: there and talk to them and be able to just
Speaker 4: talk about you know, life and talk about you know, football.
Speaker 4: And the main person I mean I talked to others
Speaker 4: outside of markets is Bobby Blackener. You know, me and
Speaker 4: him are from the same area, so you know, we
Speaker 4: have that in common, and as we get to know
Speaker 4: each other more, we have a lot of comments. So
Speaker 4: be able just to pick his brain about things that
Speaker 4: ain't seen our you know, quarterbacks he's been with his
Speaker 4: career and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And you both with callie kids like you mentioned Bobby
Speaker 2: wagen Man, you mentioned hoops man. You are Laker fan?
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, okay, no doubt. And I have to
Speaker 2: ask because man, every time you came out in training camp,
Speaker 2: we had a basketball people with just day. I don't
Speaker 2: think I've ever seen the quarterback warm up with a basketball. Man,
Speaker 2: Where does that come from? And why is that something
Speaker 2: you've added to your game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's something I've done for a while.
Speaker 4: Is just kind of like tricking your mind. You know,
Speaker 4: obviously a basketball is bigger than a football, as dribble around, basketball,
Speaker 4: shoot it, things like that, and then when I pick
Speaker 4: up the footballs and just smaller in my hand, feel
Speaker 4: smaller in my hand, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So so you hoop a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm better than Bobby Wagener.
Speaker 2: No, I think Bobby everybody that's sat in his chaff
Speaker 2: claimed they are the best command is player.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna take that ground.
Speaker 4: I'm better in Bobby Wagen.
Speaker 1: That's all you care about. Long as you better than Bobby.
Speaker 4: Better than Bobby White? What the information you want to do?
Speaker 2: Well, man, we're gonna let you go. Before we let
Speaker 2: you go, man, you know we all have goals. You've
Speaker 2: achieved a very big goal by getting drafted, by becoming
Speaker 2: a starter, by making into the NFL.
Speaker 1: What is your goal now for this season?
Speaker 4: Be the best version of myself each and every day
Speaker 4: no matter the good or the bad ups and the downs.
Speaker 4: Bill go out there and you know, the other players
Speaker 4: could look at me like, Man, Jay's consistent. You know,
Speaker 4: he's consistent with his work as it, you know, with everything.
Speaker 4: How you take care of his body, stuff like that,
Speaker 4: and then try to figure out a way to get
Speaker 4: better each and every day.
Speaker 1: Hey, Jad, and we can't wait to see you improved. Man.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on all your success so far. Man, We're excited
Speaker 2: to see this journey. Appreciate you taking the time with it.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: And of course we can't talk to our rookie quarterback
Speaker 2: without bringing in a legend that pioneered the entire game,
Speaker 2: welcoming in former Super Bowl MVP form Super Bowl Champion,
Speaker 2: the first African American quarterback to play in a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl game, a true Washington legend, mister Doug Williams.
Speaker 1: How you doing, sir, I'm going good, real good man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you being here. Man here and we started.
Speaker 2: Off I said it, the first black quarterback to play
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. Last season, fourteen of thirty two
Speaker 2: teams started a black quarterback.
Speaker 1: You would a pioneer for that. What is it like
Speaker 1: seeing the league.
Speaker 5: Now, well, I think what has happened the league as
Speaker 5: a whole has involved it's not about the color of
Speaker 5: your skin. It's about who could play. And that's the
Speaker 5: part I like about it. You know, anytime doing the playoffs,
Speaker 5: if that was a black quarterback in the playoffs, reporters
Speaker 5: will always call me and asking what I think about that.
Speaker 5: Now they don't have to call me to ask me that,
Speaker 5: because the's a chance that it's gonna be one, two,
Speaker 5: maybe three, and sometimes four in the playoff. And I
Speaker 5: think that's the way it should be. You know, don't
Speaker 5: judge somebody about the character they skin, but what they
Speaker 5: can do and what they can do for the team
Speaker 5: and for the city and things like that. And I
Speaker 5: think what has happened all these young guys that are
Speaker 5: out there now, you know it's playing football because not
Speaker 5: because they're black, because they can play and they're the
Speaker 5: best person that they can put in their position. And
Speaker 5: that's what makes me feel good.
Speaker 2: And it's nice to sit here and look back in
Speaker 2: hindsight because we can say how much has changed. But
Speaker 2: while you were in it, did you feel that the
Speaker 2: league would turn into this because you were in the
Speaker 2: trenches of it being somebody that's done something that's never
Speaker 2: been done before.
Speaker 1: Did you see the league turning into this.
Speaker 5: No, I don't think anybody could see that, you know,
Speaker 5: not at that time, because the way the time was
Speaker 5: back then. Being one of the one of the few
Speaker 5: at that time, James Harris was in the league, but
Speaker 5: he wasn't that starting quarterback. And then Vince Evan came.
Speaker 5: He was in Chicago. Matter of fact, Vince and myself
Speaker 5: played in the first game that two African American quarterbacks
Speaker 5: ever played in in nineteen seventy nine against the Bears.
Speaker 5: You know, I remember like that one like it was yesterday,
Speaker 5: because it was a big it was a big thing.
Speaker 5: It was a big write up. And today times you know,
Speaker 5: that's not a big thing. It's the team. It's not
Speaker 5: the quarterback. It's the team who are playing each other.
Speaker 5: And I think it's good that we've gotten to that
Speaker 5: point because at the end of the day, we all
Speaker 5: got to live here, we all got to play here,
Speaker 5: and everybody got to be respected for what they do.
Speaker 2: And mister Doug, it's not just that you're a pioneer
Speaker 2: during the game. After the game, you've dedicated your whole
Speaker 2: life to football, helping people, mentoring people, helping the next
Speaker 2: generation come up and be better football players. Why was
Speaker 2: that so important for you to do that after your
Speaker 2: playing career.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I was fortunately growing up number one.
Speaker 5: You know, I had an older brother who was actually
Speaker 5: you know, it's my mentug always be my mentor. And
Speaker 5: he was the one that really got me into playing
Speaker 5: football because football wasn't my first nature. Basketball and baseball
Speaker 5: was what I really wanted to do. And he's just
Speaker 5: so having to be a coach at my high school.
Speaker 5: He was a junior high coach and I was eighth
Speaker 5: grade and he became the junior high football coach, and
Speaker 5: he gave me an ultimatum. He said, I mean you
Speaker 5: to play football. Whip him. So I ended up playing football.
Speaker 1: They're so like you made a good decision there.
Speaker 5: Yes, football been good to me. You know, that's the
Speaker 5: good part about it. You know, the four years that
Speaker 5: I was at GRAANDLA State University, nothing like playing at
Speaker 5: Gramlin for coach Edd Robinson. The guys that I played with,
Speaker 5: you know, I had some great guys to play with.
Speaker 5: And being drafted by Tampa, you know, going there for
Speaker 5: five years years and playing and then going to the
Speaker 5: USFL for two and the one coach that was at
Speaker 5: Tampa was Joe Gibbs. And then you know he was
Speaker 5: that came to Washington, and after the USFL folders on,
Speaker 5: one other coach called me, and that was Joe Gibbs.
Speaker 5: And that's why I'm here today. And uh, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm thankful for Coach Gibbs and the blessing that's been
Speaker 5: restored up on me. And you talk about the spiritual guy,
Speaker 5: nobody's more spiritual than Coach Gills. For what he told
Speaker 5: me in nineteen eighty seven, right after preseason, what do
Speaker 5: he tell you? You know, I've been traded. Nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 5: we went to la we played a preseason game against
Speaker 5: the Rams. We came here. I had a pretty good game,
Speaker 5: and we got off the air plane at Duter's Airport.
Speaker 5: Him and Bobby Beth was at the bottom of the
Speaker 5: steps and he told me say, hey, you know, we
Speaker 5: made a deal for you. We traded you to the Raiders.
Speaker 5: And I said, oh, coach, thank you. You know I'm
Speaker 5: talking about the Raiders. They you know, I think every
Speaker 5: little kid growing up was a Raider fan. They I
Speaker 5: was onely one that admitted or not. It was somethingbody
Speaker 5: that seven black so so coach, thank you, coach, and uh,
Speaker 5: he said, look, come by the office about eleven thirty
Speaker 5: and we'll sit down. We'll talk about it. And I
Speaker 5: went to the apartment and packed my bags, call everybody
Speaker 5: in Zach Louisiana and told him I was gonna be
Speaker 5: a Raider. And uh, when I came over to the office,
Speaker 5: you know, I went to his office. If you know
Speaker 5: Coach Gibbs, he might not do it at this stage,
Speaker 5: but he had this funny laugh.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: He looked at me and he's he said, ha, ha,
Speaker 5: changed my mind. And I said, Coach, I said, you
Speaker 5: can't change your mind. And at that time he snapped
Speaker 5: at me. He said, hey, I don't work for the Raiders.
Speaker 5: I worked for the Washington Redskin. So I just sat
Speaker 5: back in my chair. And then he told me this
Speaker 5: this un is God true. He said, look, I got
Speaker 5: a feeling. And coach Coach Gibbs, one of them guys
Speaker 5: you played with, Coach Gibb, you always have a gut feeling.
Speaker 5: And he said, I got a feeling. He said, I
Speaker 5: got a feeling that somewhere along this line this year,
Speaker 5: you know, you're gonna come in here and we're gonna
Speaker 5: win this thing. At that time, it didn't mean nothing
Speaker 5: to me. You got to understand that he just bust
Speaker 5: my bubble.
Speaker 1: Because you in your head you were going to it wasn't.
Speaker 5: What's gonna happen at the end of the year. I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Look that's too far away, you know. But but there
Speaker 5: wasn't nothing I can do. I got out the chair,
Speaker 5: went downstairs, and whatever meeting I had to go to,
Speaker 5: went to the meeting. And you know, at the end
Speaker 5: of the year, everything came true. You know, I met
Speaker 5: him at the dog going into the locker room, and
Speaker 5: the first thing he told me said, I told you
Speaker 5: didn't Yes, you did, Coach, And you know I know
Speaker 5: I never we'll forget that. This man told me this
Speaker 5: before the season that was started in nineteen eighty seven. Wow,
Speaker 5: and it all came true.
Speaker 2: And it's crazy because you know, Coach Gibbs, was that
Speaker 2: belief for you, that mentor for you, like you said,
Speaker 2: that guidance and you have chosen to be that for
Speaker 2: a lot of players. And now you're in a very
Speaker 2: interesting situation here because you get to be a guide
Speaker 2: to a rookie quarterback and Jade and Daniels, and I
Speaker 2: was so back to that first preseason game we had.
Speaker 2: He walks out into Jersey, you know, looking good into
Speaker 2: Doug Williams Jersey.
Speaker 1: Did you know that was gonna happens.
Speaker 5: Every tell you, you know, going into the stagem you know,
Speaker 5: players ride on the players bus exactly. And I'm on
Speaker 5: the bus with all the coaches, you know. And when
Speaker 5: I got off the bus, I sat down there every
Speaker 5: to get off. When I got off the bus, I'm
Speaker 5: looking at seventeen. I said, oh man, this boydom broke
Speaker 5: out a thug wheel of Jersey. To me, that was
Speaker 5: ultimate respect that anybody could could ever pay you, you know.
Speaker 5: And I didn't ask him why he put it on.
Speaker 5: I remember Dan flying back after the game. Dan looked
Speaker 5: at me and saying, how cool is that?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: But it kind of tells you who Jayde Dames really
Speaker 5: is as an individual.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I think we're lucky we got a guy like Jayden
Speaker 5: and Daniel who don't have any devor to him. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he get along with everybody. Come to work. He come
Speaker 5: to work. You know, you come here six thirty in
Speaker 5: the morning. I promise you, you'll find his car in
Speaker 5: the parking lot. That's who he is. And I think
Speaker 5: it says a lot about you know, how he was
Speaker 5: raised and how he look, how he respect people that
Speaker 5: came before.
Speaker 2: Him, and Jaden had nothing but great things to say
Speaker 2: about you, calling you a mentor calling you somebody that
Speaker 2: has been looking out for him even before he got
Speaker 2: into this building. Talk to me about your relationship with
Speaker 2: Jada and the history you guys have, because I don't
Speaker 2: think a lot of people realize y'all go way back.
Speaker 5: Well, I think the only thing you could say, you know,
Speaker 5: you call a guy. When I mean, it's not like
Speaker 5: you can tell him what to do or what have you,
Speaker 5: because you're not coaching it. It's just like in this bit,
Speaker 5: I'm not coaching it. But my thing is, you know,
Speaker 5: like I walked by him sometime and he said, hey, Doug,
Speaker 5: I say, what's up, Jaden? And then sometimes I walk
Speaker 5: up to him and say, hey, man, you got to
Speaker 5: learn how to slide, you know, just give.
Speaker 1: Him some good advice and everybody that's that.
Speaker 5: But no, it's just a matter of calling a guy.
Speaker 5: And I stayed on the phone a long time. Just
Speaker 5: call and let him know that you looking at him,
Speaker 5: you care about him, You want to do good, and
Speaker 5: I think that's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: And you've been a rookie quarterback before.
Speaker 2: Man, what advice can you give him and have you
Speaker 2: given him as he approaches being starting quarterback for week
Speaker 2: one against your Tenthorley Buckinge.
Speaker 5: Ins, Well, you know what, when I look at Jayden
Speaker 5: doing this training camp, man, I put myself in that position.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I was as as calm, cool
Speaker 5: and collected as Jaden has been. You know, you watch
Speaker 5: this kid, man. He don't get rattled, He don't put
Speaker 5: hisself in no rush. He does everything right, and when
Speaker 5: he doesn't do it right, he want to come back
Speaker 5: and do it again. I don't know whether when I
Speaker 5: became starting caught back in Tampa, I was like that.
Speaker 5: I probably was a little more nerves than he is today,
Speaker 5: you know, but a lot of things has involved and
Speaker 5: I just watch him. Man, watched the game, the last
Speaker 5: preseason game. You just watch him how the ball comes
Speaker 5: out of his hand. He's not gitterly jumping back there
Speaker 5: trying to get out of his hand. He he know
Speaker 5: what he's doing. He comes out in the timely matter.
Speaker 5: He knows how to place the ball where it's supposed
Speaker 5: to be. I mean, Jaye just do so many things
Speaker 5: so well. You know, it's hard to even look at
Speaker 5: something that he doesn't do well.
Speaker 1: And I think we're all happy about that.
Speaker 2: We're all happy to have Jaden and we're really happy
Speaker 2: to have somebody like you here to mensor him. Like
Speaker 2: I said, he's going against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers week one. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you're going for burgundy and gold. You're rocking
Speaker 2: with us?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, thinking about it, you go down to
Speaker 5: Tampa and you know, I'm fortunate enough to have you
Speaker 5: know my name in both stadiums here and there. But
Speaker 5: the end of the day, when it's all said and done,
Speaker 5: it's only one team that I'm pulling for. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: and that's the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 2: We love that. Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go, everybody has expectations. What is
Speaker 2: a successful season for the Washington Commanders this year?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not gonna throwing the numbers out, but
Speaker 5: I think the latest year has been in training camp,
Speaker 5: the way everybody's been busting their behind to get everything done.
Speaker 5: I'm looking for a really competitive year, more competitive than
Speaker 5: I've been I've been here, you know, I'm been here
Speaker 5: a long time, going on my eleventh year, and this
Speaker 5: is the first time I've seen a team like this
Speaker 5: as hustled. They out there every day, they enthusiasm and
Speaker 5: everything is on the move. It's a great feeling. Let
Speaker 5: me say that, you know, And whatever happened this year
Speaker 5: is because of what they've done on the field, and
Speaker 5: the coaches and everybody has instilled into these players.
Speaker 2: Mister Doug Maning, there's nothing more I can add to that.
Speaker 2: And that was beautifully put. And we thank you so
Speaker 2: much for your time. You pulled up to the first
Speaker 2: episode of season two of Next Man Up Man, So
Speaker 2: thank you so much for being a part of this
Speaker 2: Command is family. Roy Cole Junior here, mister Doug Williams.
Speaker 2: This is the Next Man the Podcast. We'll catch you
Speaker 2: all next Friday.
Speaker 4: Take this stuff my pleasure.
Speaker 3: Scrapped it so nice, got it here it twice