Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to camping out with Zach Selvey,
Speaker 1: where we're dropping all the bombs he would ever want.
Speaker 1: I bet you're watching the Commander's team and they go
Speaker 1: through training camp. We got the fans all out here
Speaker 1: for the first day of padded practices and today is
Speaker 1: rotating cast of characters on the beat. We have two
Speaker 1: rapporters and a player. By the way, I'll add a
Speaker 1: feature there for you had miss Tissler from NBC Sports Washington.
Speaker 1: We have Michael Phillips from the Richmond Times Dispatch, and
Speaker 1: we have Curtis Hodges, the tity who was trying to
Speaker 1: make his way onto the roster. Let's go check out
Speaker 1: what they had to say. All right with us, we
Speaker 1: have Michael Phillips and the Richmond Times Dispatch. It's the
Speaker 1: first day of PATS and what have you seen so far?
Speaker 1: There's really kind of stood out to you, man, I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of good play from the defensive line today.
Speaker 1: I think you started with fa Obada. You know you
Speaker 1: knew he was good. Obviously he's got a track record.
Speaker 1: He's gay. Jonathan Allen's mullin dudes out there. Montes Sweat
Speaker 1: playing very well, Fiderian Mathis. I like what I saw
Speaker 1: from Fiderian Mathis, so we knew that's a good unit.
Speaker 1: Obviously fun to watch with the pads on finally getting
Speaker 1: a chance to do the things they do. And then
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz had a much better day than yesterday. Off
Speaker 1: to a very good start here. The one thing I
Speaker 1: haven't noticed, man, you don't hear the thud anymore with
Speaker 1: with these Guardian caps on their heads. You know that
Speaker 1: kind of click every time you hear a play. It's
Speaker 1: a lot a lot softer, a little more subdued. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie I do. I do understand why they're there.
Speaker 1: They're very important, they should be there. I do kind
Speaker 1: of miss the pop a little bit. We can find
Speaker 1: out some sort of technology to make the pop exist
Speaker 1: without like, you know, concussion, that would be super nice.
Speaker 1: This is our version of college baseball. Remember when they
Speaker 1: went to like the Woods simulated bat. Now it sounds
Speaker 1: like they're swinging a toilet out there, like you know,
Speaker 1: like that porcelain cling instead of the metal. That's what
Speaker 1: we're doing here. So you mentioned John Allen, I mean,
Speaker 1: did you see the way he was just bull rushing
Speaker 1: Andrew Norwell I mean, I mean it seems like he's
Speaker 1: just he's ready for the first day of pass right
Speaker 1: thoughts some prayers for Andrew Norwell Man. That's you don't
Speaker 1: want to be that guy. You'll you'll line up, you're excited,
Speaker 1: it's an NFL practice, and like, oh, there's an angry
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen. Okay, well, that's a bad situation to be
Speaker 1: in them M. But you know, kind of switching. You
Speaker 1: talked about FIDERI mat this too, and he's the guy
Speaker 1: who has really been coming that really so much, none
Speaker 1: of the pastors, but he does have that ability, right Yeah,
Speaker 1: And people are talking about like, oh, you know he's
Speaker 1: here to replace Ran Payton. Now he's here to play
Speaker 1: alongside to Run pay They're gonna go three on that
Speaker 1: line a lot, especially Chase Young. This is the first
Speaker 1: few weeks here. You've got matthis, Payne, Alan, You're gonna
Speaker 1: put all three m on the field. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: formations where you go five on that defensive line, can
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback, can get after the run game.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a key to the success
Speaker 1: this year. It is really using all three of those guys.
Speaker 1: You're right Faderian mathis. I mean, obviously he's a run stopper,
Speaker 1: that's who he is by definition. But it wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me if he gets a sack this year. It's a
Speaker 1: nice little wrinkle to have when you can rush the
Speaker 1: pastor in the middle. Yeah. Yeah, So I was down
Speaker 1: there watching one on one pass rush. Were you there
Speaker 1: watching seven on seven? I was trying to stand in
Speaker 1: the middle and see both. I'm trying to off it's
Speaker 1: trying to have it all. It's tough to have it
Speaker 1: all out here to training camp. You know, you got
Speaker 1: the offense working over here. You want to see that,
Speaker 1: But then you got the lineman, you know, popping each other.
Speaker 1: When they did that first drill, which was it was
Speaker 1: the kind of the run drill where the two lines
Speaker 1: were both there and got like you could just feel
Speaker 1: the excitement they were they're getting after it. I loved it.
Speaker 1: So I knew we were watching one on one routes
Speaker 1: with the receivers in the DBS, and I thought, Cam Sims,
Speaker 1: why don't he caught every single pass a day? He
Speaker 1: almost had a really really nice grab out there during
Speaker 1: red zone drills. Well, we've seen out of camp Sims
Speaker 1: so far. Somebody explained to me what Cam Sims needs
Speaker 1: to do to get more playing time. Nothing Football League.
Speaker 1: All he does is make clutch catches every time they
Speaker 1: put him out on the field. I just you could
Speaker 1: run a highlight reel of Hey there's Cam Sims. He
Speaker 1: got one catch. It was a monster catch that changed
Speaker 1: the game. Like, I don't know, I've seen enough from
Speaker 1: Cam Sims. We have a four year body of work now,
Speaker 1: he's very good at what he does. I'm close your
Speaker 1: eyes and tell me what you see. And that's how
Speaker 1: much Campsens has to do to make a roster pro
Speaker 1: Cam Sims. There you go. Who isn't honestly, but so
Speaker 1: you know Cole Turner another guy who has really kind
Speaker 1: of come on rit lately. I mean, do you think
Speaker 1: he could be kind of like a Red Zins wall.
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas is still kind of on the man. We
Speaker 1: don't know why he's gonna come back, but you know,
Speaker 1: he's nice to have him at him and his ability,
Speaker 1: that's your caveat. You know, fantasy football players were kind
Speaker 1: of waiting for that Logan Thomas information. Right, If Logan
Speaker 1: Thomas is out six weeks, I'm just making up a
Speaker 1: number here. There's gonna be some Cold Turner touchdowns, but
Speaker 1: he's capable of that. He's absolutely capable of filling that
Speaker 1: role being a big red zone target. If Logan Thomas is,
Speaker 1: you know, getting ready for Week one, it's going to
Speaker 1: be a reduced role for Cold Turner, and understandably so
Speaker 1: you want to run with Logan Thomas. He's the best
Speaker 1: you've got. But he can do it. He's a big
Speaker 1: red zone target. We've seen Carson Way. You know, it's
Speaker 1: hard to overthrow a six six guy. Carson Wentz found
Speaker 1: a way to do it the other day. But when
Speaker 1: he connects, I mean he can get balls up there
Speaker 1: that you know, that's what you want in the red zone.
Speaker 1: It's either an incompletion or a touchdown, no bad outcomes.
Speaker 1: You know, he provides that with that height, that size,
Speaker 1: he goes out there, He goes out and gets it.
Speaker 1: He has that length. Like he said, Now, going to
Speaker 1: the defense, we know kinda fuller has been you know,
Speaker 1: pretty good so far. Who are they some other defensive
Speaker 1: line that we're not really thinking about. It kind of
Speaker 1: really popped, you see, kind of did what I did
Speaker 1: there with the Popo Metavi guy, I see what you
Speaker 1: did there. I'm waiting to see Jayman Davis this week.
Speaker 1: This is a big week for Jayman Davis. Let's call
Speaker 1: this what it is. It's hard to show out if
Speaker 1: you're a lineback or before the pads come on. The
Speaker 1: pads are on. This week, I think we're all really
Speaker 1: excited to see has there been a second year leap?
Speaker 1: Will he be a guy they can count on every down?
Speaker 1: That's the big question to me this week. I'm have
Speaker 1: my eyes on jam and David c What has he
Speaker 1: achieved this offseason? Whereas he where is he ready to go?
Speaker 1: William Jackson Man, I mean, we're gonna talk about defensive
Speaker 1: players who have popped and look, it's become almost cliche
Speaker 1: to say now Core and Elder he's having he's having
Speaker 1: himself a camp. I mean in the hoodie too, in
Speaker 1: the hoodie in the hood the land in Collins hoodie.
Speaker 1: You know the guys who wear the hoodie out here
Speaker 1: on these day. I am sweating just standing here doing this,
Speaker 1: Sames with you. I always feel back over the guys
Speaker 1: after practice like I'm I'm sweaty, like, well what did
Speaker 1: you do? Like watched you? You know? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's high out here though, it's it's camp weather. Well
Speaker 1: that airhorn has said, we're doing eleven eleventh, let's go
Speaker 1: back and check in it. Let's do it all right
Speaker 1: with us? We have Curtis hodd Is the Curtis first
Speaker 1: day in pass Man. How would feel out there? It
Speaker 1: was good. Everybody got after it. Uh, siding day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you know coach was talking about you the other day.
Speaker 1: He said, you're very coachable. Um, what's some of thing
Speaker 1: things that you've been kind of learning so far? And
Speaker 1: as you go through, you know, the first few days
Speaker 1: with the team. Definitely the technique exput to the game.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to soak it all in. Uh, learn
Speaker 1: from the VET guys like like John Bass and um
Speaker 1: like uh Logan all those guys, UM, just learn from them.
Speaker 1: What what is what is this process been like for
Speaker 1: yourself far? You know, good at like Arizona State, right
Speaker 1: and then like you know you you you didn't you
Speaker 1: didn't go draft, get drafted. It's like, what's the process
Speaker 1: has been like for you so far? Uh? You know
Speaker 1: it's an underdog role. We drafted the tight end too,
Speaker 1: so I gotta prove myself Yeah, what's it like to
Speaker 1: be an underdog, you know, trying to make yourself known,
Speaker 1: that being make a name for yourself on the roster um.
Speaker 1: I kind of been fucking up that rolled my whole career.
Speaker 1: I'm used to it. I just gotta come out and
Speaker 1: make plays and be consistent every day. Last thing for
Speaker 1: you is, you know you mentioned John Bass and Logan.
Speaker 1: What are some of the biggest things you've learned from
Speaker 1: them as you kind of go through the first few
Speaker 1: days here. It's just a little thing as a technique,
Speaker 1: how to get out quicker, how to how to block
Speaker 1: somebody easier, um stance alignment. Uh, it's really just a
Speaker 1: lot small, a little things aren't really in the playbook
Speaker 1: that you know, they'll tell you when you got to
Speaker 1: kind of just remember. And it goes along with all right, man,
Speaker 1: appreciate you, and now whether we have the big man
Speaker 1: of stuff. Miss Tisler from NBC Sports Washington, Mitch is
Speaker 1: the first day it passed, it's really the time that
Speaker 1: you can really evaluate the offensive lineman or as my
Speaker 1: old coach say, the big skill back in the day. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, what does having the full pads really allow
Speaker 1: you to do when you're looking at how often the
Speaker 1: aliment are doing you know, so far in practice, it
Speaker 1: allows them to be more physical. I mean, we talked
Speaker 1: about they're the big skill guys. They're the big guys.
Speaker 1: They got to be able to get their hands on them.
Speaker 1: They got to be able to put put their bodies
Speaker 1: into it. And when they're just wearing shells or not
Speaker 1: wearing full pads, it's difficult sometimes to to really set
Speaker 1: to really set themselves. So I thought today sounded a
Speaker 1: lot different with everyone wearing the Guardian, the Guardian. You
Speaker 1: didn't hear the the Guardian cops. You didn't hear like
Speaker 1: you know, the bang bang that you're used to hearing
Speaker 1: on the first day of pads. But they got a
Speaker 1: lot of good work in there. The old line D
Speaker 1: line one on ones, we're exciting to watch. Andrew Normal
Speaker 1: really stuck out to me. He is big, strong hands.
Speaker 1: The second that he got his hands on any of
Speaker 1: those D linemen, he would he would stop him in
Speaker 1: their in their tracks. It was an impressive day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. I was telling Michae phillips Is,
Speaker 1: I do understand why the guarding caps are out there.
Speaker 1: They are very important, But I do feel like I
Speaker 1: missed the clack of a helmet because it does sort
Speaker 1: of like give you like, oh I'm back. You know,
Speaker 1: a camp, the full pad practice, it is ready to go.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Andrew Norwell, and you know he did do well,
Speaker 1: but it seemed like John Allen was just on another
Speaker 1: level today. I mean, you know you were watching out
Speaker 1: there eleven elevens and everything. What did you see out
Speaker 1: of him? I mean John Allen and Montes Seat, the
Speaker 1: two of them have launsters really good in camp so far,
Speaker 1: and then when you put him in pads, and you know,
Speaker 1: the first couple of days in camp you always had
Speaker 1: the excuse of the old linemen didn't have full pads on,
Speaker 1: so they weren't able to to really do their thing.
Speaker 1: No different today. You saw him ante sweat in the
Speaker 1: backfield every other play in eleven on eleven you saw
Speaker 1: him bottling up every run to the outside and diving
Speaker 1: inside making plays. I mean, the two of those guys,
Speaker 1: you can't understated their importance. How how well they play
Speaker 1: will very much tell how well this defense is going
Speaker 1: to play. You know, this line obviously performed a little
Speaker 1: bit under expectations last year. It does what you've seen
Speaker 1: at John and Sweat. Did that give you a little
Speaker 1: more confident that thinks they're gonna be maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit different heading into you know, twenty twenty two. To
Speaker 1: be honest, they looked really good last year too. We
Speaker 1: were talking about it the other day that, you know,
Speaker 1: last year when Ryan Fitzpatrick is that quarterback, we talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about how the defense was so far
Speaker 1: ahead of the offense, and you kind of explained it away, is, hey,
Speaker 1: this defense was top five, you know, so hey, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough sludding for the offense. You know, we're
Speaker 1: seeing a little bit more of that this year as well,
Speaker 1: and I think early on in camp you see the
Speaker 1: defense is the defense being ahead of the offense in general,
Speaker 1: to me, the biggest addition to this defensive line is
Speaker 1: gonna be fe Obada. I've been very impressed with what
Speaker 1: I've seen from him earlier. I think he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities both on the inside on pass
Speaker 1: plays and kind of on the outside in kind of
Speaker 1: the short the short run plays to make an impact.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a guy who is knifing through the
Speaker 1: old line. He's a guy who is playing with great
Speaker 1: pad level and making plays left and right. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see him. And he's got the coolest socks in
Speaker 1: the game. He's got the burgundy and gold FA socks
Speaker 1: which are which are awesome. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: when the when they get out there and can really
Speaker 1: start hitting, to see to see what he can do.
Speaker 1: But but he's been he's been a standout for me.
Speaker 1: And he has sweet British accent too, so he has
Speaker 1: like a triple or he can pet rest passer. He
Speaker 1: has the socks, he has the accent. Let's go over
Speaker 1: to the offense here, and you know, we offense, you know,
Speaker 1: didn't have as great a day probably on Monday. Do
Speaker 1: you think it was a little bit better, you know,
Speaker 1: hit with the pads on, Definitely, I think they. I
Speaker 1: think they took a big step forward today. You didn't
Speaker 1: see the defensive backs getting their hands on nearly as
Speaker 1: many balls, but more so, I think when you saw
Speaker 1: them with run plays, the running backs we're running pretty free.
Speaker 1: You saw, you know, Antonio Gibson, Jennie McKissick, and Jared
Speaker 1: Patterson all break what would have been twenty plus yard runs.
Speaker 1: And I think that's really the the you know, the
Speaker 1: the guys wearing pads, the old line being able to
Speaker 1: wall off guys without having to worry about, you know,
Speaker 1: pulling up so that you're not you know, hurting anybody.
Speaker 1: And then in the past game you saw the receivers
Speaker 1: being able to use their physicality a little bit more.
Speaker 1: You saw him be able to you know, a couple
Speaker 1: those little nudges that that receivers love to get away with.
Speaker 1: That aren't that aren't opis, but certainly are are there
Speaker 1: are are part of everyone being in pads and being
Speaker 1: a little more physical. Yeah, you're banging, you know, you're
Speaker 1: doing what you need to. Yeah. So you know you've
Speaker 1: been to the running backs and you have a g
Speaker 1: you have Mekissic, you have Brian Robinson. How do you
Speaker 1: think that you know that three hitten monster of the
Speaker 1: at the back though, is really gonna work out. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch. There's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good running backs back there. I love what Brian Robinson
Speaker 1: can do between the tackles, but I've started to see
Speaker 1: a little more shiftingness, a little more speed around the
Speaker 1: outside from him. I mean, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a true three headed monster. I think you're gonna see
Speaker 1: you know, ag probably in the early downs. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see m Kissic in the clear passing downs. But they're
Speaker 1: gonna mix in Brian Robinson in both situations. And I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a little bit of a little
Speaker 1: bit of an X factor back there for that for
Speaker 1: that running back group, because he's a guy who can
Speaker 1: kind of do it all between the tackles and around
Speaker 1: the outside. I called Brian Robinson Peyton Barber back when
Speaker 1: he was there in twenty twenty, mister third and two.
Speaker 1: I feel like Brian Robins could probably feel that role
Speaker 1: pretty well. And that's the thing is he's definitely mister
Speaker 1: third and two. But I think he can be more
Speaker 1: than that. And that's what I think he's exciting about
Speaker 1: is that he's not just a guy who's going to
Speaker 1: stick his nose in there and fall forward for two
Speaker 1: three yards. You know, Washington fans remember some J. P.
Speaker 1: Ryan back in the day, you have, I mean, you ei,
Speaker 1: there have been those guys who have been the you know,
Speaker 1: we'll fall forward for two three yards and that's their
Speaker 1: role on this team. And I think ultimately that's probably
Speaker 1: what Ron Rivera in this front office wanted when they
Speaker 1: picked Brian Robinson. But I think he's starting to show
Speaker 1: a little bit more and I think he could be,
Speaker 1: like I said, a nice little ex factor for the
Speaker 1: little extra wiggle, A little extra wiggle. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: a little wiggle, right, So yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of wiggling in the big Seal guys. But so
Speaker 1: last one is, you know, what are some things you're
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing, you know, for the rest of
Speaker 1: the week now that we're gonna be having a little
Speaker 1: more PAD today, I think Tomorrow, Friday, some of those
Speaker 1: other days. Honestly, I want to see a little bit
Speaker 1: more from Carson Wentz. I want to see a little
Speaker 1: bit more from the first team offense. They looked better today.
Speaker 1: They were completing some balls downfield. They were able to
Speaker 1: move the offense, especially when they went to the eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven move the ball period. I want to see
Speaker 1: him hit a couple of big plays. I want to
Speaker 1: see Terry, you know, Terry catch the forty yards for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. I want to see you know, Johan over
Speaker 1: the middle. I want to see Tiami, you know, breaking up,
Speaker 1: break breaking nine pattern out. I want to see a
Speaker 1: couple more, you know, kind of kind of big clutch
Speaker 1: plays because we know that's what Carson wants to do.
Speaker 1: We know that he wants to push the ball downfield,
Speaker 1: see in practice. Let's let's we know, we know the
Speaker 1: offense is capable of it on paper, but you know,
Speaker 1: we all we all love seeing any purpose a person
Speaker 1: over paper, for sure. Yeah, absolutely, there's it's great to
Speaker 1: be great on paper. It doesn't matter if you can't
Speaker 1: translate it to the field. And all right, match man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Thank you so much. That's all we
Speaker 1: have for you today. But be sure to check out
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Speaker 1: Commander's YouTube channel. I'm gonna go back to my tank
Speaker 1: because I basically live here like everybody else, and I
Speaker 1: will see you tomorrow.