WEBVTT - New NFL Rules and Legendary Lineups | Command Center Podcast | Washington Commanders 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:04.720 On today's episode the Command Center Podcast, we have the 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.560 free agent frenzy, all the new signings, we discussed them all. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:09.240 We talked XFL kickoff rule. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.119 Fred, what do you think, man, I think it's gonna 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:11.399 be great. 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.080 Yeah, I mean too. I'm really excited about. We got 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.160 legend lineup. We're taking baseball and football and mix them 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.239 in together. We got read Doddy stories and we got 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.800 Lauren Landry swinging for the fences. It all starts right out. 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:27.480 Gets your gas man, Welcome. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.280 On into the Command Center Podcast. I'm Logan, Paul sit 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.400 here with Fred Smoot and Santana mostin guys. We're talking 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.040 about in the production meeting girls basketball. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.960 It's on top of everything. It's the best basketball in 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:40.800 college right now. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:42.320 It's crazy, and I think it has. 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.519 A lot to do with you know, back in the 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.440 day Pat and Ewan played at Georgetown. Yeah, but he 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.960 would play his freshman year, sophomore year, junior year. So 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.479 we get we get a history now with the with 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.680 the girls. We just watched Angel Reese go against Ill 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.240 last year, like, so this is a this is I'm 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.120 turn into a trilogy. Alro So, I think right now 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:07.880 women's basketball has captured our imagination because one they stars 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:12.440 stay like two they repeatedly go to war against each other. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.280 And I think this the romantic size part that we're 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.000 missing in the male's basketball. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:18.920 I think one of the things we spoke about, and 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.640 I'm not sure how long ago this was. I think 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:21.960 it was me and you were sitting in the room 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.520 just talking about how how much of their. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.040 Games have changed. You know what I mean? These women. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.960 Nowadays their game is on the level of some men, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.679 and I think they have to even be more. I 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.200 guess you can say critical about certain things that they 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.120 do like men have, you know, different ways of beating you. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.480 They can out jump through you, dunk the ball, they 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:42.319 can do so many things. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.199 These women have to be skilled. They have to have skill. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:46.520 They have to be able to drive, they have to 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.240 be able to shoot, so that the game is transcendent. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.600 And I think it's one of the things that you know, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.520 when you watch the game, it pulls us into because 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.240 you see these women now they're elevating, and it's one 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.760 of the reasons why QB saying, Hey, Helen, come on 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.080 us VIC three, show me sluve. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:03.000 You know what I'm saying. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.200 So do you think she should do it. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:05.400 I think so. I think. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.240 I think not only for the sake of the money 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.639 part of it. I mean, because who's to say she's 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.720 gonna make that in her career. With the w NBA, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:12.400 they don't make much. 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.880 That's the problem with that. I do believe. I do believe. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.639 Now they're a bigger star, so they getting these these 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:19.239 shoe deals. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.200 Now they're getting different. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:21.760 She got to deal with Nike and she will be 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.480 able to make it over time. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.000 But I think that five million would be straight. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.840 So it would be something that she can do something 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.760 with her family out the gate and not have to 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:32.560 worry about trying to do this over her career. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.760 I think this is how because w NBA wages it's terrible, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:37.560 Like that's. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:38.920 Why these girls are staying in college. They make it 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:39.919 more when nil deals. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.919 Also they go overseas Toney. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.760 This is the way I think you blow up the 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.280 w n B A but also get them paid. I 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.200 had this thing I call high school proposal. Even when 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.160 we go to high school games, the girls. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.280 Play and the boys play. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.639 Because sometimes when I go to a Wizard game, by 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.639 the time I sit down for a little bit, the. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.799 Game is over. Yeah, I'm serious, say it's the quickst 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.519 doing so much. Yeah, it's going quick. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.440 So what if we went to a Wizards game, but 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.800 the Mystics play first and then the Wizards play session. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.720 Now you feel the seat, Now you feel the se 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:12.960 plus I get like. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.760 Six hours, four or five hours to be here, all right, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.919 So think about how much eye buy from the concession 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.680 staying out, Think about my daughter watching the game, that 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.080 she's watching this game with me. I just think that's 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.480 the way to truly monetize it is to put it 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.919 in the high school format and make the girls play 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:29.280 before them. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.840 We got to put a petition out man, all these ideas. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.800 Yeah, that's bright though, because honestly, bro, you know, you 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.000 know I haven't meant to missed this game yet, not 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.080 to say that I don't want to, but who goes. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:41.800 To these games? You know what I mean? 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.720 I watch them on TV right now and then you 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.480 can see the seats now it starting to get, you know, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.960 a little more full than they was before. 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:48.680 But I think that's a great point. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.160 Man, excellent point. Fred. All right, just remind you we're 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.000 about to I brought this six five. I bet three 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.480 six five. We don't do ordinary. We believe every sports 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.920 back right now. New customers can choose to two offers 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.000 when they open an account at bet three six five. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.440 Use the QR code to sign up, deposit ten and 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.360 choose between either first bet safety and offer by placing 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.080 a bet up to one thousand and if you're qualifying, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.920 bet loses, you receive a match refunded bonus bets, or 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.240 better get offer in place a bet of five dollars 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.600 more and get one hundred and fifteen bonus bets. Whatever 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.320 the sport, whatever the moment, it's never ordin air. 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Yeah, why I don't understand 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:48.880 the horror. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.320 Because you know what, it's Free agency is so scared 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.680 because because you watch these guys be great somewhere else 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.360 and you automatically think they're gonna be. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:56.920 Great for you. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.600 But one out of five free agents actually help your 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.800 team win. So at the end of the day, as 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.040 glorified as he is, and you know, some of these 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.280 guys signed a hundred million like think about it. For instance, 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.520 New York Giants signed Brian Burns, gave him a hundred 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:12.200 million dollars. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.560 What if Brian Burns ain't a hundred million dollar pass rushing. 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.760 So it's scary, but it's also satisfied, just like Halloween is. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.000 Halloween is scary, but you know you're gonna get that 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.840 candy all day and it's gonna be fun. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.800 This guy over here, all right, Well, so these guys 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.440 aren't one hundred million dollar guys have just been signed. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.760 We got Jeff Driscoll. I don't know how to say 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.360 his name. I just called him Oz when I played 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:37.120 with him, but Olama day Zakiyas, I'm sorry if that's wrong, 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:38.800 and called him o Z. That's what we're gonna call him. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.960 Jerryman Nichols and then Malachi Walker are the guys that's 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.120 signed here over the last couple of weeks since our 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.279 last show, and just high level, like what did you 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.960 think about these signings, Like what does this mean for 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.479 the team, and like what do the role these guys have? 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.159 Just keep it, I mean high level. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:57.600 I just think one of the things that stands out 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.880 with all these guys you see in eight year veteran, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.440 six year veteran, four year five you know what I mean, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.480 Like they're veterans, They're guys that's going to be you know, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.120 these guys have sweat equity in the game already. These 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.400 guys have played a number of years where they put 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.640 enough on film that these coaches say, you know what, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:14.920 they we have a spot for them. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.440 We have a spot for them to either. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.520 Earn them a spot on this team or come in 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.960 here and compete and show, you know, this team and 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.520 what we are trying to you know, become. So I 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.240 think it's great because one of the things that we 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.960 talked about leading up until you know, the draft is 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.960 what we have to do is basically build a team 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.440 all over. I mean, we had twenty some odd guys 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.800 on the team, you know, under contract, so you have 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.080 to build that team. You have to build a base 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:38.480 of that team up, and I think these have just 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:39.560 added pieces to the base. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.600 I just think when you gotta when you got a band, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.520 everybody can't be Michael Jackson. Somebody gotta be t though, right, 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.360 Like the floor of the band has to be raised. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.160 And that's when you when I look at these guys, 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.800 I say they raising the floor of this building. They 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.760 understand that we only good as the fifty third person 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.479 on the roster. The fifty third person on the roster 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.440 is a seven year of it that's been there, done 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.440 that really to play and the drop off a dime. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.640 That tells me a lot about where the ceiling is going. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.119 And that's what I'm saying. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.440 So if you raised the floor, the ceiling can only 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:12.960 get hired. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.239 I think one thing too that stands out about seeing 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.160 some of the things that we've been doing here. I 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.280 talked a lot to you guys about how my ten 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.000 years here went to three playoffs. Yeah, you know it's 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.400 crazy that with the guys that we had ten years 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.000 only had three playoffs appearances, only one one game, one 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.800 playoff game in those ten years, and four years with 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.600 the Jets we went to three the same thing three 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.880 but that's in four years. Yeah, So we was going 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.600 automatically almost every year when I was with the Jets. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.640 And one of the things I noticed about that team. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:43.920 I came in as a guy who they know that 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.160 they wanted to depend on. I got hurt my first year, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.120 but they got a lot of us, you know, in 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.360 the draft, like my year, the year before me, they 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.160 got colds, and those guys you had John Abraham, you 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.920 had Ellis Or you had Chad Peninsula, Ray mickens Day 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.640 was in the draft before me, you had me. Then 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.120 every draft they got some young talent. But when it 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.840 comes to the base of our team, it was all veterans. Yeah, 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.400 and that one was one of the reasons why we 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.840 was going to the playoffs because you had guys you 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.120 just said it, guys that if somebody went down or 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.320 somebody wasn't ready, you had a veteran there that could 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.720 step in and be solid. I'm talking about he might 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.600 not be like you said, Michael Jackson or that Curtis 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.240 Martin all that. You know, that Wayne Quebec, but he 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.040 was solid enough that he can go out there and 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:24.800 get the job done. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.120 So when I'm. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.200 Watching these guys strategically build his team together. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.640 They're getting veterans, they're getting guys. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.480 That have a leadership that's going to go out there 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.600 and like you said before, show some of these young 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.679 guys what it takes to be a pro and how 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.240 it is to be able to be one of those 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.760 role players to come in and just do your job. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:42.360 You need that. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.240 You need big shot Bob, you need Robert or you 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.600 know what I'm saying, Like you know, when the star 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.600 but when you need me to make the play, I 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.360 will be there and I will be waiting. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:52.800 Wait. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.000 Yeah, So, like you know, I played with Oz when 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.720 I was in Atlanta. Yeah, he was a rookie when 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.600 it was my last year there. And he's a guy 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.360 that I think he was like a lot. He's like, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.720 he's tough, he's competitive, kind of like what you're talking about. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.439 Guy like he could come in and spot duty and 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.600 play a little bit. I played with Jeremy McNichols when 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.400 I was in San Francisco. Again, that guy that's always 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.480 he's always been the bride's baid, never the bride, like 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.439 always kind of on the fringe, but has played played 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.600 in Tennessee. Was a good third down back for them, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.480 carried the ball well, So again, just a guy that 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:23.079 adds some flexibility to the Rogers, some depths competition. The 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.280 key is, yeah, he did. I think he returned kickoffs. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.040 He's kind that he's kind of that body type, right, 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.000 he's kind of you know, he's six, he's five eight, 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.800 but he's like one hundred. He's like two hundred and 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.840 five pounds. He's like a little muscle guy. He's tough, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.439 he's competitive, and I just you know, he played a 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.240 lot as a rookie and I thought he did a 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.440 really good job. And he's played a lot in Philly, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.920 like relatively speaking, given the depth there. So I think 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.319 those are guys that are really interesting. Jeff Driscoll is 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.680 also interesting to me as a signing because he's a he's. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.400 A veteran athletic quarterback. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.600 He's athletic quarterback. He's a veteran guy that again has 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.640 all that experience. And so I don't know when I 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.880 think about you're probably drafting a quarterback at two, right. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.400 Probably gonna keep three you need to have, you want 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.480 to have four going into training to camp period. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.840 Yeah, but I think having guys around him that have 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.600 played a lot, you know, like Jake from I like 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.160 Jake from a lot, but having guy with this kind 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.680 of experience, it's been in multiple systems, that could possibly 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.840 another another resource for a young quarterback going in. I 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.480 think is a pretty cool idea. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.000 So every time you say Jake for I just I'm 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:21.560 on the custom saying from State Farm. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.439 It's very close, very close, It's very close. But yeah, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.600 I think it kind of speaks to the general philosophy, right, 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.520 And you talked about this too, and I think this 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.720 is a really good point. Is I think Peters has 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.880 made a made a pretty clear assertion or statement that 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.840 he wants to kind of build through the draft. But 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.320 in order to do that, you need to have the 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.079 scaffolding in place, right that the roster of veterans is 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:44.719 there to kind of take everything that. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:45.960 You need to Matt. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.600 And then I think with the new kickoff return rules, 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.120 I think guys like the key is going they got 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.319 they got some more stand power with now, because when 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.080 you take that that one play at the game, you 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.760 take a guy like be Mitch out of your gameplay it. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.600 So just reminder or watching by a bet three sixty five, 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.319 I bet three sixty five, we don't do order. We 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.240 will every we believe every sports should be I picked 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.760 right now. 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If you are someone you know has 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.360 a gambling problem and once help, call my man free 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.360 it gambler. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.680 I need help, I need help. You know you're providing 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:44.839 fred You're providing the help. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.079 I'm here for them, Like, if you need help, I'm 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.760 here for you. They're like, yeah, I'm just trapped in 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:53.320 MG on away. I got three dollars left from a pocket. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.559 Give me ten minutes, Maine. I'm coming to get you. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.480 The Well, so, Fred, you were starting talking about the 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.280 kickoff rule. Yeah, and so let's the new kickoff rules. 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.000 So let's talk about that rule a little bit, right, Yeah, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.000 So the ball will be still be kicked from the 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.760 thirty five yard line. That's not a change. Every player 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.600 on the kicking team, other than the kicker themselves is 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.400 will now line up with one foot on the team 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.160 on the returning team's fourty yard line. Yet right, ye, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.640 during this new kickoff, no players can move until the 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.000 ball is fielded by the collar turn. So this is 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.040 the old XFL rule. And I think Fred, you brought 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.600 up a great point right at the gate. This now 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.720 makes the kickoff returner a relevant position you need on 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.520 the game. But how do you guys feel about this 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.360 rule change. I know it's a departure from tradition and 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.720 a lot of football purists, at least in my experience, 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.640 I've been a little bit critical of this, but I 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:44.599 want to get your guys thoughts on. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:45.600 I just want to see it work. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.120 I mean, honestly, I saw a snippet of it watching 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.080 XFL a year ago, and it wasn't that many big returns. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.760 You know, you probably have two or three of them 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.400 ran back the entire spring. I guess you could say, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.240 but you saw God be creative. And I remember, you know, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.720 I had a guy that I played with in New York, 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:04.599 Tory Woodbury. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.840 He was I forgot the team that he was. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.640 He was a special teams coach for now he's a 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.360 special teams coach here at Howard. Yeah, I was so 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.880 crazy that how you know for a circle he's back 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.360 in the area. But I remember him telling me. I 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.800 asked him about it. I'm like, bro, how did like, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.120 how do you like that? He was like, man, got 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.640 to be creative. Like we're finding ways to be able 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.680 to use these guys like they're in the backfield. Like 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.880 it's basically like a running back getting the ball out 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.600 of the backfield. You have to bring guys from one side, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.440 do different things, you know what I mean, try to 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.760 you know, get that to spring that kick or whatever. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.280 So I just want to see it work. I want 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.600 to see how creative some of these special team gurus 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.120 are on this level and see we can get more 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.360 returns than two or three this year. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.360 Well, the thing about it is they want to see 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.920 the return just happen, and what what was getting in 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.520 the NFL was I think maybe thirty to twenty five 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.760 percent even just raining the ball out right now with 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.600 their kicking rule in the AX fil this eighty five 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.719 percent return because most of the kicks they bringing them 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:05.200 out because for the return team it's in your favor 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:05.839 to bring it out. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.679 Now there's a penalty. Now the ball comes back out 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.760 to the thirdidah. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.719 So it says, now let the return man return. And 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.679 I think it just it brings another level to the game, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.440 cause we know this offense defense very exciting. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.640 But especially team got something very exciting about it. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.920 But it also shows you too that they're more worried about, 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.400 you know, wanting to see the I guess you could 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.840 say the excitement part of it, then worried about a guy. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.640 Like Jeremy Reeves who who made his living running down 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:37.080 on kicks. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.960 You know what I'm saying, Like, I think it takes 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.440 away from guys who really made a living out of 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.040 running down on kicks because now you put me in 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.800 a couple of mouths, they slowed the impact that no, no, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.560 that's no doubt, no doubt, it's about safety. But I'm 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.160 just saying, like, how many guys this is going to 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.600 affect that was that was just you know, I'm a 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.320 kickoff demon, you know what I mean. You know, we 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.760 had so many guys on our team that we knew that, Man, 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:59.760 I'm gonna sit here and watch this kickoff because those 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.560 guys sitting in the middle of a thing, I'm saying, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:03.880 So it's gonna go peel somebody. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.840 That's what I want to walk. I'm gonna be. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.320 It's gonna be interesting to me just to see what 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.600 it takes from those guys who may live in just 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:10.960 doing that. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.440 You know, I see when I was watching the XFL 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.720 and I was covered. This was back when during COVID 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.360 you know, just a couple of years ago now. But 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:18.720 one of the things that stuck out to me is 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.120 I do think it makes those special teams guys more 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.320 relevant because this is a play that was almost completely dead, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.360 like you could get away, like you think about it, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.560 Joey slide Like one of the things like his superpower 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.440 was they they had no returns allowed this year because 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:31.600 he just kicked them all out the back of the end. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.920 So now those guys, you could put anybody out there. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.200 I could go out there and cover a kick. It 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.680 didn't need to be Sean Taylor, Logan Paulson who's terrible 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.880 at covering kicks and no one would even know, right, 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.920 And so I think, like now you're trying to promote 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.240 that this play is relevant again, You're gonna get guys 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.080 who have special teams value. The back end roster guys 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.960 are not just gonna be who's the best four string 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.160 linebackers like who also can play teams. So I think 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.080 it helps, It adds value to guys in my opinion 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.280 after watching the XFL two guys like Jeremy Reeves, because 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:01.960