Speaker 1: Welcome Commander's family. My name is Brian Cople junr here
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl champion, Brian Mitchell, mister A to the
Speaker 1: nine Santay Brothers.
Speaker 2: We are out here in.
Speaker 1: Detroit for the twenty twenty four NFL Draft and this
Speaker 1: is your Command Center Draft Special Live presented by SIGI,
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Speaker 1: And of course we have to give thanks to the
Speaker 1: MGM Grand Detroit for hosting us here, for having us here.
Speaker 1: I don't know about y'all. My room's beautiful. I'm having
Speaker 1: a great time. Yeah, my room is beautiful too.
Speaker 2: Don't break up rooms with meror.
Speaker 3: Room was in the lobby for a while.
Speaker 1: I was in the lobby four o'clock. We know what
Speaker 1: now we're taking care of. Now, we're comfortable and we
Speaker 1: have our commander's family here with us.
Speaker 2: We thank y'all so much for being here.
Speaker 1: We drive from the dmvright and Tonio.
Speaker 2: We have people from all over us. We appreciate you
Speaker 2: guys so much.
Speaker 1: And what we like to do here is we like
Speaker 1: to really dive into everything that we're going to dive into.
Speaker 1: And the following day, which we're going to have a
Speaker 1: live show Thursday night for the draft, and we're giving
Speaker 1: you everything you need to know about our next kick,
Speaker 1: our first round pick. And what did we always like
Speaker 1: to do with these fellas because they played the game,
Speaker 1: because they've been here before. We like to get their memories,
Speaker 1: their times. And both of these brothers have the pleasure
Speaker 1: of being drafted.
Speaker 2: We missed you went in the fifth round.
Speaker 1: Man, Bring us back to that point, and what did
Speaker 1: that moment mean for you and your family?
Speaker 2: Brother? Well, I went.
Speaker 4: I was drafted so long ago it wasn't on TV
Speaker 4: to be honest with. But the other thing. You listen, man,
Speaker 4: I know every guy waiting to be drafted, they don't
Speaker 4: care which round, which position.
Speaker 3: It seems like that you just want to be picked.
Speaker 4: Yes, and once your picked, I don't care if it's
Speaker 4: the first pick or the last pick or undrafted free agent.
Speaker 3: You're an estatic.
Speaker 4: You're happy because you know what that lifelong dream is
Speaker 4: finally coming to fruition. You know I got drafted. I
Speaker 4: was sitting there, I was on my sofa sleep.
Speaker 2: And my phone wrung.
Speaker 3: I had that big old Sailor one.
Speaker 4: Anybody remember that you had that big sailor one phone
Speaker 4: and they say, we're gonna call you in our next
Speaker 4: next pick, and we're gonna pick you. It was coch
Speaker 4: don bro And once I got drafted, I went to
Speaker 4: the local watering hole and we had a part. You know, listen,
Speaker 4: I was fifth rounded, but you would have sworn I
Speaker 4: was the first route.
Speaker 3: Everything was on the house.
Speaker 4: I had a great time, but once I got drafted,
Speaker 4: my mindset immediately went to, now I have to show
Speaker 4: them who I am, what I'm about, and have to
Speaker 4: do it for the long term. And by having that mindset,
Speaker 4: I was able to stay around for fourteen years. Yes,
Speaker 4: that draft is only one thing. It's what you do
Speaker 4: after the draft is what's gonna ready to keep you around.
Speaker 1: So be mich I've kind of heard that a bunch
Speaker 1: from like different prospects. If the guys that kind of
Speaker 1: went like outside of the first and second, were you
Speaker 1: sleeping and like trying to relax because you were trying
Speaker 1: to not let the pressure of the situation get to
Speaker 1: you or was it just you just knew you were
Speaker 1: getting drafted at some point, Like why were you so
Speaker 1: calm in that moment?
Speaker 4: Well, I was frustrated, to be honest with you, because
Speaker 4: they told me, I was gonna I mean, the same
Speaker 4: said they were gonna drafted in the second round. Still
Speaker 4: as that mentioned third round, those rounds passed. But when
Speaker 4: I was drafted, I forgot about who said they were
Speaker 4: gonna draft me somewhere. I just all I wanted was
Speaker 4: the opportunity. And once you get the opportunity, that's all
Speaker 4: that matters.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Listen, Man Tanner, when he got drafted, it didn't make
Speaker 4: it difference the first round. He wanted to prove something
Speaker 4: to somebody. You know, what's inside of you has to
Speaker 4: come out, you know. I always tell people. I see
Speaker 4: everybody every year get that little silver medallion. Do you
Speaker 4: have to work ethic to match that silver medallion? Oh
Speaker 4: you're gonna just be wearing that for a bit and
Speaker 4: going back home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you talk about work ethic, Satanna, That's a
Speaker 1: perfect transition to you, my brother, because you were a
Speaker 1: first round pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to us about that. Kind of a different.
Speaker 1: Experience for you. But I love hearing your draft stories
Speaker 1: because I know that was a very important time for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean, but he did it on
Speaker 1: the head. I cared less about the round. But at
Speaker 1: that point you got to think about it, I kind
Speaker 1: of came to the back door of college football by
Speaker 1: being a walk on. So to come through the way
Speaker 1: I got into playing ball as a walk on to
Speaker 1: now be leaving as a first round.
Speaker 2: Pick or a draft choice.
Speaker 1: I was looking at all the stuff that I didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to experience going into college now I'm
Speaker 1: experiencing now leaving here. You know, far as like being
Speaker 1: a guy that's hardly highly sought out, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: I watched so many.
Speaker 1: Guys take these trips to these colleges and you know,
Speaker 1: be high recruits, and now here I am going to
Speaker 1: the NFL that that big time recruit.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: When it came to singing bows.
Speaker 3: Money right, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't have to.
Speaker 1: On that stuff, so you know, but it was just
Speaker 1: I was ecstatic, though. Bro I looked at it.
Speaker 2: I looked at my journey, and I'm like, you know what.
Speaker 1: I would do it all over again, because, you know,
Speaker 1: in order for us to do what we do, you know,
Speaker 1: you hear a lot of folks say, man, you got
Speaker 1: to be a little crazy. Yeah, you gotta be a
Speaker 1: little crazy, but at the same time, you gotta have purpose. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the things in life
Speaker 1: that we all have, regardless of if you're playing a professional
Speaker 1: your professional athlete, or you just want to be, you know,
Speaker 1: your every day, nine to five worker. You got to
Speaker 1: have a purpose. And I had a purpose from day one.
Speaker 1: My goal was to be an NFL player. When I asked,
Speaker 1: when I was asked that question at five and six
Speaker 1: years old, who you want to be when you grow up?
Speaker 2: What you want to do when you grow up?
Speaker 1: When I said that to my father, I've always had
Speaker 1: that in my mind. So that was my purpose and
Speaker 1: I was able now to finally see that, you know,
Speaker 1: come to fuition.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I was a quarterback in college and the Saskatchewan rough
Speaker 4: Riders had my rights and I was basically a first
Speaker 4: round pick to go to Canada.
Speaker 3: They were gonna know, they need more money.
Speaker 4: Wow, But I have never dreamed about playing for all Canada.
Speaker 4: So I told them, listen, you wait around. If I
Speaker 4: go on that first day, I'm gonna try the NFL.
Speaker 4: If I something happened and you can see me. They
Speaker 4: held my rights till I was in my year, my
Speaker 4: eleventh years, you know, and they never let him go.
Speaker 4: But the ultimate thing for me was I wanted that
Speaker 4: shot at the NFL. That's what I watched every day.
Speaker 4: That's what I wanted to do, and that's why I
Speaker 4: worked so damn hard because I had a guy tell
Speaker 4: and we'll see you at home in a few I
Speaker 4: haven't moved back to Louisiana since nineteen ninety April.
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety a man, and I think you.
Speaker 3: Have to have that drive.
Speaker 4: That's why I tell guys off that it's easy to
Speaker 4: be drafted, it's hard as hell to stay around. And
Speaker 4: when you get double digit years like he did and
Speaker 4: I did, that's because we did a little bit.
Speaker 3: We sacrificed.
Speaker 4: We had fun, but we sacrificed and did the things
Speaker 4: we needed to do.
Speaker 1: And Tanna, Man, I love you mentioned about living in
Speaker 1: your purpose and trying to fulfill your purpose. And ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, if y'all don't know nothing about Santanta mass
Speaker 1: this brother is way too humble.
Speaker 2: So I gotta give your flowers real quick.
Speaker 1: Because back when you were drafting me and you were
Speaker 1: having this conversation a little earlier, a five to ten
Speaker 1: receiver was not highly sought after.
Speaker 2: A shorter receiver was not.
Speaker 1: They didn't understand what that kind of receiver could do
Speaker 1: in the league. Then you get drafted in the first
Speaker 1: round and then things change. You kind of set the
Speaker 1: tones of the smaller receivers and now that's kind of
Speaker 1: the norm for our tennis is the norm?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: You see a six two receiver, You're like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: a big boy Tanner. Man, how important was that you?
Speaker 1: Cause I'm sure you when you were living in this purpose,
Speaker 1: you were trying to fill the dream, you didn't really
Speaker 1: realize the impact you're going to have. But now that
Speaker 1: you're on the back end, Man, how important is that
Speaker 1: impact that you've made on the league?
Speaker 2: You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I talk to you about it and it's just like
Speaker 1: something that comes up. But to tell you the truth,
Speaker 1: until someone speaks out to me about it, saying like, hey,
Speaker 1: you and Steve Smith kind of changed the whole, you know,
Speaker 1: spectrum of how they view receivers at you guys size.
Speaker 1: I don't think about it until I'm hearing it from
Speaker 1: someone else, and at the time, being in the moment,
Speaker 1: I paid no attention to it because to be told that, hey,
Speaker 1: what you did for these four years, you can be
Speaker 1: the first receiver.
Speaker 2: But you're not.
Speaker 1: Because you're five ten. That sucks, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because it's like almost telling you, oh, we want you,
Speaker 1: but we don't want, like, come on, let me go
Speaker 1: out here and show you. So I care less about
Speaker 1: the size because I felt like all my life I
Speaker 1: heard you can't do it because you're just small, or
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna do it because you're just small. But
Speaker 1: every time I went out there, I proved you different,
Speaker 1: not even trying to prove a point. I didn't have
Speaker 1: a point to prove to no one but myself. You
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. I didn't play the game to
Speaker 1: make sure that you saw something.
Speaker 2: I played the.
Speaker 1: Game because this is something that I felt that was
Speaker 1: given to me, and I was going to fulfill that
Speaker 1: because you know, sometime, like you say, we all have
Speaker 1: I guess you get blessings. We all have our blessings.
Speaker 1: We all gifted with certain things. But if you're not
Speaker 1: living within it, you're not going out there, you're not
Speaker 1: attacking it, then you're missing out.
Speaker 2: You're kind of basically wasting that blessing.
Speaker 1: So I felt like from day one, I was put
Speaker 1: on the field to cut grass.
Speaker 2: You know, my feet, the things I can do on
Speaker 2: the football field. What's second to nine, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So ingo, that was my like. You know, we talked
Speaker 1: about going to school. What did you majorre?
Speaker 2: Yeah, majored, but my first major was football. You know
Speaker 2: what I.
Speaker 1: Finished, I graduated. I went to school twice, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I went back and got something else.
Speaker 1: But I was there with My purpose was I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do whatever it takes here to make sure it comes
Speaker 1: Saturdays when it's tigning to go out there and lay
Speaker 1: them up, I'm gonna be at my best there. So yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I look back at it now and I smiled. But
Speaker 1: I never cared about that kind of you know, hanging
Speaker 1: over me because at the end of the day, it
Speaker 1: was other guys that were small than me that I
Speaker 1: saw play the game.
Speaker 2: So I wasn't the first to do it.
Speaker 1: I was just probably the first because of the time.
Speaker 1: You didn't see too many guys in my side being
Speaker 1: talked about as being a first a high first round
Speaker 1: draft pick, So that was a little different than first,
Speaker 1: you know, from just seeing the other guys. Like I
Speaker 1: told you, I grew up in Miami, Mark Duper, Mark Clayton,
Speaker 1: those guys were short. You know, I see those guys
Speaker 1: to this day and I'm standing next to them, kind
Speaker 1: of got a couple of inches on them, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, but I was enjoying just having
Speaker 1: the opportunity, and I think that's more than anything, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, not to get off topic, we was talking
Speaker 1: about some of these guys being drafted today. I mean
Speaker 1: this weekend. One of the things that happened to me
Speaker 1: that I was happy it happened. Like I just told you,
Speaker 1: I had the first class treatment going into the draft.
Speaker 2: I'm a first round pick.
Speaker 1: I get selected by the New York Jets.
Speaker 2: I go up there.
Speaker 1: Immediately I get hurt. So I'm like back at square one,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, just how quick it came. It could
Speaker 1: be taken, and then I had to reprocess and rethink
Speaker 1: all that over again. Say, now I got to dig
Speaker 1: deep and get back into that same guy who was
Speaker 1: hungry enough to get here, and now I got to
Speaker 1: start that process over. So that's another thing these guys
Speaker 1: have to understand. Once you make it, you haven't arrived
Speaker 1: until you really go out there and be specially on
Speaker 1: that field. So don't think that you made it just
Speaker 1: because you got drafted, you still have job to do.
Speaker 3: Ladies, and.
Speaker 1: Applause with Santana Mass man, get his brother's flowers.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful. And you know what command is family. I
Speaker 1: think that's the coolest part about this Command Center thing
Speaker 1: that we do is we have this type of exclusive
Speaker 1: access to legends and grace and people that know how
Speaker 1: to do this, and we also have exclusive access to
Speaker 1: our fans.
Speaker 2: We want to hear from you now.
Speaker 1: We usually do hashtag left hand up in the comments
Speaker 1: to leave your questions for these gentlemen, but we changed
Speaker 1: it up a little bit this year. All Right, things
Speaker 1: is different. Now we're doing hashtag raise hell.
Speaker 2: That's h a. I l raise Hell.
Speaker 1: Y'all can go into the comments and hashtag raise hell'ies gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I will do my best to read them all right
Speaker 1: now in front of you guys, so y'all can get
Speaker 1: y'all questions answered, and you know what being this before
Speaker 1: we move on, because you know I'm saying, since we
Speaker 1: give it flowers to Santana Mass brother, I think we
Speaker 1: need to get flowers you too as well, because you
Speaker 1: said it coming out of college.
Speaker 2: You wore a quarterback. You wore a black quarterback.
Speaker 1: At a time where that wasn't as popular as it
Speaker 1: is now.
Speaker 2: Five ten and a half.
Speaker 1: But now you look at this league now and you
Speaker 1: see shorter brothers playing quarterback, and it's almost what people
Speaker 1: are really looking for.
Speaker 2: Be miss man.
Speaker 1: How great is it to see the NFL develop and
Speaker 1: change the way it has since Uni?
Speaker 2: You played? Well?
Speaker 4: It's great to see it because I think the ultimate
Speaker 4: thing is, for a period the NFL wanted to say
Speaker 4: what size you needed to be to be able to
Speaker 4: play a position. I returned kicks and punts. I left
Speaker 4: the NFL and you can look at the records and
Speaker 4: figure him out, but I was not the prototypical return side.
Speaker 4: Barry Sanders was what two hundred pounds one night, Emmon
Speaker 4: Smith was about two oh three.
Speaker 3: I played at two twenty.
Speaker 4: I got up to two twenty two twenty one, and
Speaker 4: I was still considered a small back. Because the league
Speaker 4: likes to tell you what you're supposed to be to
Speaker 4: do something. I was the guy that wasn't very I
Speaker 4: don't dance. I don't dance in clubs, I don't dance
Speaker 4: on the field. So at two twenty one I still
Speaker 4: could put down the four to four and I'll put
Speaker 4: my shoulder passing your chest. So I played running back
Speaker 4: and kick return like a linebacker. And now to see
Speaker 4: these guys playing quarterback and being given the opportunity because
Speaker 4: they are the better athlete on the field. They can
Speaker 4: still process and think and do different things. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm watching Kyler Murray and Bryce Young. I don't know
Speaker 4: what they're saying about Bryce Young. I was at the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl and I stood next to him. Dude is
Speaker 4: not five eleven or not. I'm told that he is
Speaker 4: because I know I saw the top of his head.
Speaker 3: On an angle.
Speaker 2: You give up the secrets, man, He is not that.
Speaker 4: But I like the fact that, Hell, Johnny Manzil wasn't
Speaker 4: super tall.
Speaker 3: What's my game, my Baker Mayfield is not tall.
Speaker 4: If the dude can spin the football and the dude
Speaker 4: could think through it, give him a chance to be
Speaker 4: the best pass on the team.
Speaker 3: He needs to be the best.
Speaker 4: Everybody that's six ' five and take a snap can't
Speaker 4: be a great quarterback some of them. And the league
Speaker 4: has gotten faster today, so you can't go with these
Speaker 4: slow guys too much. You gotta get somebody that can
Speaker 4: move and today when you look at it, you have
Speaker 4: to be athletic, not very fast, but you have to
Speaker 4: be able to move and extend to be a good
Speaker 4: quarterback in the league today.
Speaker 2: And be missed.
Speaker 1: You're always ahead of the curve, brother, because you know what,
Speaker 1: I could talk to you all day about, you know,
Speaker 1: y'all experiences. But you know, we got to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit of draft. The draft is tomorrow. Commanders have
Speaker 1: six picks in the top one hundred.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there you go. I love him. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 2: I'm excited too. This is amazing, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying, six picks in the top one
Speaker 1: hundred nine picks overall. But were talking quarterbacks. That's what
Speaker 1: everybody want to talk about.
Speaker 2: So let's talk quarterbacks. Just run it down the line.
Speaker 1: Jadeen Daniels, A lot of people have favored him as
Speaker 1: the next quarterback taken after Caleb Williams. We all assume
Speaker 1: that Keayler Williams is going to the Chicago Bears. Be Mitch,
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, what have you seen from this brother that
Speaker 1: makes you say, you know what, I trust this guy
Speaker 1: to lead the team.
Speaker 3: Electric.
Speaker 4: I think what happens is the assumption has been Caleb
Speaker 4: is going to Chicago. But I talked to the guy
Speaker 4: today on the show and he was like, people are
Speaker 4: comparing Jayden to the rest of the quarterbacks. Jadans should
Speaker 4: be compared to Kayla. And he said, when you start
Speaker 4: looking at it, really look at Jaden's year last year
Speaker 4: compared to Caleb's, Jayden might be the better quarterback. So
Speaker 4: when you start hearing that, you go, Okay, if this
Speaker 4: guy should be in comparison to the guy everyone is
Speaker 4: assumed will be the number one pick.
Speaker 3: If you get a chance of picking, you take him.
Speaker 4: You know, we were talking earlier before we started the
Speaker 4: show where everybody wants to say, oh, man, he could
Speaker 4: be great because he runs the ball a lot. No, no, no,
Speaker 4: he passed for three thousand, eight hundred yards. Okay, he
Speaker 4: had forty touchdowns, four innerceptions, and then he ran for
Speaker 4: over a thousand.
Speaker 3: That's exceptional.
Speaker 4: But I talk with Greg cor Sell, somebody a highly
Speaker 4: highly respect and Greg Cosall was like, listen, people want
Speaker 4: to sit up here and just look at his athleticism.
Speaker 4: He said, this guy in the pocket is as good
Speaker 4: as anybody in this draft. So when you look at
Speaker 4: a guy that could spin it with the best of them,
Speaker 4: and he's gotten better every year. And it troubles me
Speaker 4: when people go, well, all he did was get better,
Speaker 4: That's what the hell he's supposed to do, all right,
Speaker 4: And I can't assume that the guy got better every
Speaker 4: year three years at Arizona State. Then he comes here
Speaker 4: and he got better at LSU in a conference where
Speaker 4: the best football players out there. On top of that,
Speaker 4: he had a coach who's a maniac and an idiot,
Speaker 4: could be crazy.
Speaker 3: He dealt with him, and he had a he had
Speaker 3: a he had a fan.
Speaker 4: Base that expects a lot, and that dude went and
Speaker 4: followed Joe Burrow and did he probably was as good
Speaker 4: or better as Joe in the league.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So I just think that.
Speaker 4: Easy let tricity, and he would want to get a
Speaker 4: fan base hype.
Speaker 3: Yes, that will get him hYP I promise you that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, just talking about the kid, I think
Speaker 1: he's a game changer. You know, That's one of the
Speaker 1: things that I think at that position is what most
Speaker 1: teams are looking for nowadays.
Speaker 2: You know, we see so many different.
Speaker 1: Games that I won in the NFL by that quarterback,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's a lot of games that these
Speaker 1: teams have great defenses.
Speaker 2: Now, a lot of teams now are showing.
Speaker 1: Because you know, for so many years it was you know,
Speaker 1: defense wins championships and the offense gonna you know, put
Speaker 1: people in the stands. But when it comes down to
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, game on the line, you need
Speaker 1: a drive. Who you looking for to make that drive?
Speaker 1: Who you're looking for to make that play your quarter?
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And we just saw that in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, it was almost like deja vu watching
Speaker 1: this guy game on the line, what he's going to do,
Speaker 1: and you just saw the guy scrap everything that had
Speaker 1: transpired throughout those fourth quarters to this one drive. I'm
Speaker 1: finna go out there and be special. Whatever they did
Speaker 1: to stop me or rattle me, it's one drive. I
Speaker 1: need to be special. So that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: And that's what I think a guy like Jane Dayenes
Speaker 1: shows you. When you watch his film, you see a
Speaker 1: guy that when he gets pressure, he knows how to
Speaker 1: slide to the right spot.
Speaker 2: And when you see open up, let me go. It's
Speaker 2: time for me to go.
Speaker 1: Now, it's time for me to exit this pocket and
Speaker 1: go out there and do what I was blessed to do.
Speaker 1: And not only can he run, he can throw the ball.
Speaker 1: And he just stated that. So that's what I see it.
Speaker 1: And I think when it comes down to you know,
Speaker 1: you know this draft, don't get it twisted. They're trying
Speaker 1: to find reasons to say what you can't do. You understand,
Speaker 1: like they see what you could do, because that's why
Speaker 1: they have you up there slotted where you're at. They
Speaker 1: know you can be the second overall, the first overall.
Speaker 1: You have these numbers, but they want to nitpick what
Speaker 1: he can't do or what is it what is it
Speaker 1: that we can talk about to make you say, hmm,
Speaker 1: this is the reason why we shouldn't, you.
Speaker 2: Know, go out there a guy like that. But I
Speaker 2: think when you see every.
Speaker 1: Guy, because like just because we're talking about James Daniels,
Speaker 1: you know, every guy that have a chance to be
Speaker 1: in that rim of the top three, top four, top
Speaker 1: five picks, all.
Speaker 2: Those guys are special.
Speaker 1: And I think it's just about what do you feel
Speaker 1: like that your team needs, who you want?
Speaker 2: You know, who's the guy for you? And I look
Speaker 2: at it from what we have.
Speaker 1: When it comes to quings Kingsbury, his offensive style of play.
Speaker 2: What quarterback fits that mode? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I think he's the guy. But if you want to
Speaker 1: be technical, you want to be critical.
Speaker 2: You know, I can.
Speaker 1: Say that Pennix was probably the better passer in the
Speaker 1: league last year, but they're gonna put off there and
Speaker 1: say he has two injuries, so that's why we're gonna
Speaker 1: put him here, But that he got over that. You
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying, So just look at it for
Speaker 1: what it is. All these guys are special. I think
Speaker 1: Jaydon Daniels was the best when it comes down because
Speaker 1: he won the Heisman, and dang right, if I have
Speaker 1: that opportunity to go out there a guy that pickure,
Speaker 1: you know where I'm going at, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and put my card in tonight.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I love your guys analysis on that because I feel
Speaker 1: like Jayden Daniels is getting keyed as an athlete that
Speaker 1: can throw, which isn't the case. He is a quarterback
Speaker 1: that is athletic. Had the number one qub are in
Speaker 1: the ncule a.
Speaker 3: Seventy three percent.
Speaker 2: It's crazy legal.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, we talked about this.
Speaker 2: A little earlier.
Speaker 1: Why do you think he is getting pegged that way?
Speaker 1: And why do you think people are so against giving
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels the credit he deserves.
Speaker 4: It's what has been forever. You know, when you are
Speaker 4: athletic and you're an African American, you can see athletic quarterback.
Speaker 4: You don't get the grace of saying how good you're
Speaker 4: in other positions because when you look at the league
Speaker 4: right now, Josh Allen is super athletic. Yes, he's a
Speaker 4: pass he's a game changer. Justin Herbert can move around.
Speaker 4: He's a game changer. Joe Burrow when he's healthy, you
Speaker 4: see he runs around, he can move. But nobody ever
Speaker 4: just say you just an athlete in garun. But when
Speaker 4: you are a guy who's very athletic and you're African American,
Speaker 4: you get knocked like that because they only look at
Speaker 4: your athleticism and not the rest of it.
Speaker 3: I think what you have to look at is watch.
Speaker 4: The game and listen to the commentators and they're talking
Speaker 4: about that was a smart play. Do you see the
Speaker 4: brilliance of that? I watched LSU. I grew up right
Speaker 4: across the real from LSU. They are talking about him
Speaker 4: in a way that that needs to be thought about.
Speaker 3: And let's get to the point.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Look, everybody, we've been told what we can't do. Okay,
Speaker 4: work with your culture. You've been told you can't do
Speaker 4: something because people think only a certain culture can do it.
Speaker 4: Everybody's already proven that stuff wrong. So now we see
Speaker 4: quarterbacks doing this thing in the league.
Speaker 3: Help Pat Mahomes. He's done his thing.
Speaker 4: So let's get past that and just let people play
Speaker 4: and if they're good, they're good. But we can't try
Speaker 4: to you know, railroad him. I put him into like
Speaker 4: a little box. He has proven he's not in a
Speaker 4: box anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Tanne Man, let's move on to the next quarterback,
Speaker 1: Drake May, because you know, we talk about polarizing prospects,
Speaker 1: and I think Drake May, maybe at all the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: maybe he is the most polarizing. You have people that
Speaker 1: love him, you have people that aren't sure about him.
Speaker 1: If you have some people are nervous because he went
Speaker 1: to North Carolina like a former quarterback that we did have,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of speculation on Drake May. How do
Speaker 1: you feel about this guy? And do you have any
Speaker 1: concerns about Drake May? Especially after he kind of had
Speaker 1: a down statistical year compared to the previous year he had.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a receiver, So the first thing I'm
Speaker 1: looking at when I'm watching quarterbacks, I'm looking at accuracy.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at can you dissect the defense? Can So
Speaker 1: some of those things stands out more than others. Now,
Speaker 1: the one thing I did see from Drake Mayor, he's
Speaker 1: a guy who's very capable of playing in this level one.
Speaker 1: His size along proves that, you know, I mean, stocky kid.
Speaker 1: I believe it was six y four six three six four,
Speaker 1: and I mean has a nice thickness about itself, like Sam,
Speaker 1: like Sam Howell. You know, it almost fit the same,
Speaker 1: you know mode when it comes to watching these guys,
Speaker 1: and at times you see him doing everything that you
Speaker 1: want to see a quarterback do, reading the defense, stepping
Speaker 1: up in the pockets, slide, getting out of danger, getting
Speaker 1: out of harms way when he needs to. But it's
Speaker 1: that pass accurate enough to make a play that when
Speaker 1: we need you to make that play or media to
Speaker 1: make that throw. And I haven't seen that a lot
Speaker 1: on film. Now, who's to say that this little off
Speaker 1: time going into the draft, he's not gonna work on
Speaker 1: it and not gonna be better when he comes in
Speaker 1: the draft. None of us know what these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be. You know what I mean when they step
Speaker 1: onto the NFL practice facility, I mean practice field. So
Speaker 1: but when you have to ask me today what would
Speaker 1: be the one thing in the back of my head will.
Speaker 2: Say, it will make me kind of say I don't know.
Speaker 2: And that's the only thing. You know. It's all about accuracy.
Speaker 1: And when I hear so many different analysts who probably
Speaker 1: spend more time watching and dissecting film than I do,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at for when I'm looking at because
Speaker 1: I played the game, so I have a different eye
Speaker 1: I have. I don't have to sit there and watch
Speaker 1: you know all that family. I'm gonna watch a couple
Speaker 1: of key games and see what you're doing. But I
Speaker 1: hear so many guys saying maybe he needs a year
Speaker 1: to sit See, that's right the flat for me, because
Speaker 1: if you're thinking about us in the.
Speaker 2: Position that we in, yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't bring the quarterback that we have in our
Speaker 1: you know that's that's there now to be our startup.
Speaker 1: We need a guy that's gonna be able to come
Speaker 1: in there and maybe they might compete, or maybe that
Speaker 1: guy's that to bridge, that guy to be the starter.
Speaker 2: But we need somebody who's gonna be ready.
Speaker 1: So when I hear you saying that a guy might
Speaker 1: need a year to sit or a guy is not
Speaker 1: very accurate, it gives.
Speaker 2: Me that that that red alert that.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not guy. I'm going to bring him to
Speaker 1: my house. But the same time, like I said before,
Speaker 1: what do we know? You know what I mean, just
Speaker 1: because we saw that on the collegiate level, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it's going to transfer to the to the pro level.
Speaker 1: If he has the right kind of too literal, the
Speaker 1: right kind of coaching.
Speaker 4: I think when you look at it, for me, the
Speaker 4: duke can make all the throws. And now I go
Speaker 4: back to what's a guy fifty fifty years We called
Speaker 4: him the receiver Terry cam No no back in the
Speaker 4: day they drafted him here in Washington.
Speaker 3: Uh he's now on amazing race or whatever. And he
Speaker 3: called him.
Speaker 4: Fifty to fifty because he always caught Rob Gardner.
Speaker 3: He dropped all all of easy.
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know they called we came
Speaker 2: in together.
Speaker 4: Okay, I know he caught tough passive, but he dropped
Speaker 4: the easy ones. You become great by always catching the
Speaker 4: easy balls and you occasionally.
Speaker 3: Make the spectacular catch.
Speaker 4: I've heard a lot of people talking about Drake and
Speaker 4: they say, man, I just look at his highlights. If
Speaker 4: I just look at people's highlights, they're great. Everybody be great.
Speaker 4: But you have to look at the low lights as well. Okay,
Speaker 4: and then there a lot of time they say he
Speaker 4: misses the easy passes. You can get better in this league. Okay,
Speaker 4: But tenise say that we're in a position right now
Speaker 4: where you don't make a first pick a second pick
Speaker 4: in the draft, and the guy needs a lot of work.
Speaker 4: If you want to draft that guy, you drafted and
Speaker 4: he hits the ground running. It just like some people
Speaker 4: feel like if you have been improving in college, it
Speaker 4: stops when you get to the pros. If you proven
Speaker 4: that you get better for five years straight, you're getting better.
Speaker 4: You're going to continue probably getting better this guy. So
Speaker 4: but I would say this, if they were to draft Drake,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be upset because the reason I won't
Speaker 4: be upset the most important higher or most important pick
Speaker 4: of this whole thing all off season was Adam Peters
Speaker 4: and then he got all these guys on the coaching staff,
Speaker 4: and I know a lot of these guys who knows
Speaker 4: how to develop talent. Yes, we've had a history of
Speaker 4: coach that couldn't develop talent. Now I feel that if
Speaker 4: they get somebody, they can get the best out of them,
Speaker 4: so it makes team better. I don't think there's a
Speaker 4: quarterback in this draft that's gonna step in here and
Speaker 4: just carry the team on their backs. You have to
Speaker 4: have people around you and have people develop, and I
Speaker 4: believe this coaching staff can do that. So whoever they get,
Speaker 4: you know you're gonna go with that. But like I said,
Speaker 4: if I'm picking, I'm going with the guy who has
Speaker 4: shown me already he's gotten better and better and better
Speaker 4: and better. And look how good he got in that time.
Speaker 4: And we always say we want a guy to have
Speaker 4: some level of experience playing around.
Speaker 3: He's played five years and better, he got.
Speaker 4: Better every year, So that experience is a little bit
Speaker 4: more than being a guy who's been a two year
Speaker 4: player over a five year player.
Speaker 2: You talk about that experience.
Speaker 1: I think national championship experiences make a big deal in
Speaker 1: this draft. You've seen a guy like JJ McCarthy, quarterback
Speaker 1: out of Michigan, just shoot up the boards. I mean
Speaker 1: we're seeing things that he might go number two, Like
Speaker 1: we have no idea where this guy is going. Another
Speaker 1: polarizing prospect be mished. What do you think you've seen
Speaker 1: from JJ that has made him jump up like this?
Speaker 1: And do you think he can be one of these
Speaker 1: top guys to go in the top five by JJ?
Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people are going to
Speaker 4: be thinking this way. The guy that played for twenty
Speaker 4: plus years and won seven Super Bowls didn't play a
Speaker 4: lot in college, but he had the work ethic end
Speaker 4: of the determination that most guys do not ever have.
Speaker 3: Tom Brady I'm talking about you watch JJ.
Speaker 4: He was on a team that was a pro style
Speaker 4: offense that was run first, and occasionally he was asked
Speaker 4: to deliver. Here, teams approached him differently than they do
Speaker 4: most quarterbacks because if you mess around and go rush
Speaker 4: Michigan trying to get at the quarterback one of those
Speaker 4: running running right patch going down the field. What he
Speaker 4: was asked to do. He did that to perfection. So
Speaker 4: you have to look at that. And the guy won
Speaker 4: in high school, he won into college. You know you
Speaker 4: see him as a winner, and that pedigree goes a
Speaker 4: long way, and then you look at him as his
Speaker 4: leadership qualities. So when you see all of that, I
Speaker 4: believe that you know he's gonna be a guy that
Speaker 4: But he in the NFL, Now what do we all do?
Speaker 4: The pressure is on the quarterback. He hadn't been a
Speaker 4: guy that had to carry his team in the NFL.
Speaker 4: He will have to do it. Can he do it?
Speaker 4: Probably so? But do I know that for a fact.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he can or not. I don't
Speaker 4: want to be experimenting right now. You know, Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 4: likes to throw the ball around. He didn't have to
Speaker 4: throw a ball a lot in Michigan because they had
Speaker 4: some running backs that would run down your throat and
Speaker 4: Jim was gonna run that thing all day, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. So ultimately I don't I just I
Speaker 4: like him, but I think he can go to a.
Speaker 3: Team where he has that chance to grow.
Speaker 4: I look at the New England Pagers as a prime example.
Speaker 4: They have a kid that was with us last year.
Speaker 4: Keep forgetting all these damn names, Jacorby Persett Jr. Corby
Speaker 4: Presett is good enough where he could wait that year
Speaker 4: and then come into it and make that run. They
Speaker 4: wanted Tom to wait, but injury had him thrown into
Speaker 4: the thing, and Tom was just different.
Speaker 3: Tom said he ain't ever getting this job back, and
Speaker 3: he never did. And JJ may be the same way.
Speaker 4: But I just don't see right now where we are
Speaker 4: waiting for someone to develop.
Speaker 1: And you kind of feel the same way, right do
Speaker 1: you feel that a top ten or top five pick
Speaker 1: it's too heavy for a guy that is not ready
Speaker 1: to start right away? I mean, honestly, being a guy
Speaker 1: that's been in those shoes, I won't doubt any guy
Speaker 1: from having that opportunity, you know. I mean I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you're worthy enough and they feel like you're great
Speaker 1: for that, you know, for that pick, for that round,
Speaker 1: for that number, go get them. But I will say,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's all about every
Speaker 1: team's gonna pick their poison.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying, Like, what fits, what, what's right for me? What
Speaker 1: am I looking for?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And that's why I say, when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: that's how you can almost kind of nitpick who's going
Speaker 1: to be the guy that goes well because you're looking
Speaker 1: at the team. And you know, we've seen so many
Speaker 1: years of especially our team, selecting guys that just was
Speaker 1: guys that was sart good at football players, but you
Speaker 1: didn't have a place for them on your team. I
Speaker 1: think now you have a staff that's in there, you
Speaker 1: have a front office that's in there that's very strategic
Speaker 1: about how they building this team and how they're structuring
Speaker 1: everything that it's going to be the perfect guy.
Speaker 2: Talking about JJ.
Speaker 1: Hey when it comes down to how he interviewed very well,
Speaker 1: you know, how he was coached very well, won a
Speaker 1: national championship.
Speaker 2: All those things are high.
Speaker 1: And then when you have a coach that's speaking out
Speaker 1: about you before you even said a word to anybody,
Speaker 1: like he's going to be the best or he has
Speaker 1: the best workout, all that stuff carries.
Speaker 2: All that stuff carries a lot of weight.
Speaker 1: And if you're able to step into those offices individually
Speaker 1: and have your individual meetings and still pass the tests
Speaker 1: and still stay tall, Like I heard a guy speak
Speaker 1: one time on TV and I was blown away. So
Speaker 1: when you have that kind of intangible that this guy
Speaker 1: can say all the right things, then you watch him
Speaker 1: play and it's showing up on the field. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: understand why I would be sitting there scratching my head.
Speaker 2: Should we take a chance at them? You know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you look at it and say,
Speaker 1: how are we running offenses in this league?
Speaker 2: Are they run first? Offense? Didn't pass?
Speaker 1: No, A lot of these offenses are passed happy offenses.
Speaker 2: You know we're gonna run just to save you ran.
Speaker 2: You know we did that last year. I hated it.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm probably sure that we're not gonna do that this year.
Speaker 1: But when you look at how he went through his
Speaker 1: college career, it was more so older pro style offense
Speaker 1: offenses that I grew up in or I came up
Speaker 1: in the University of Miami. First, second down, we running
Speaker 1: the ball, third down, get open town.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You're not getting that this day, and you're gonna need
Speaker 1: a guy's gonna be a step back, drop back and
Speaker 1: throw that ball.
Speaker 2: Sling ball.
Speaker 1: Is he ready to do that? Can he do that?
Speaker 1: We didn't see him do it a lot. We understood
Speaker 1: he did what was ax but can he be the other?
Speaker 1: Be the other guy on this level? Because I think
Speaker 1: any team he goes into that's the style of playing
Speaker 1: now today in this league. Fellas a lot of questions
Speaker 1: around all of these top quarterbacks and a lot of intrigue.
Speaker 1: And our commander's family has a lot of intrigue as well.
Speaker 2: And let's get into some of these questions.
Speaker 1: That of the questions, this is hashtag raise hell. H
Speaker 1: A I l raise hell. And our first question is
Speaker 1: from Ted Abella. I hope I pronounced that right. Tanner
Speaker 1: had twelve different quarterbacks in his career. If he had
Speaker 1: to choose which quarterback in the draft he would like
Speaker 1: throwing him the rock? Who would it be? That is
Speaker 1: from Ted Abella. Great question, Ted, I had fifteen.
Speaker 2: Short three of them.
Speaker 1: We can have a talk about that later. Honestly, man,
Speaker 1: I like a few of them.
Speaker 2: I got told you.
Speaker 1: Pendix throws a nice ball, so you know I like Pinnix.
Speaker 1: Jane Dames is a guy too. That raised my eyebrow.
Speaker 1: I told you guys earlier this year on the Command Center,
Speaker 1: you know, and for all you guys that's not watching
Speaker 1: the Command Center every week, tune in USA nine now
Speaker 1: so if you don't have to worry about going to YouTube,
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: Watch it on USA nine.
Speaker 1: You can on the Command Center y'all ask me who
Speaker 1: would I pick, And due to the fact of how
Speaker 1: things are slotted, Caleb Williams was one of the guys
Speaker 1: that I said that I would love him.
Speaker 2: To fall to us.
Speaker 1: Probably not gonna happen, but those three guys to me
Speaker 1: stand out, Caleb, Pinnix and your man Jayden. I would
Speaker 1: put Pinnis in front of both of those guys when
Speaker 1: it comes to catching a pass from them. Like you know,
Speaker 1: you asking me who would I want throwing me the ball,
Speaker 1: I feel like this guy would spot on it. Every
Speaker 1: time I watch them play any angle he throwing that
Speaker 1: ball to those guys, they're just catching in effortlessly.
Speaker 2: And you know that's what I look for. You know,
Speaker 2: I've had so.
Speaker 1: Many quarterbacks and people ask me all the time who
Speaker 1: did I like the most? And I always talk about
Speaker 1: Mark and I talk about Vinnie. But besides Mark and Vinnie,
Speaker 1: Todd Collins was my one of my favorite quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: it's because he threw a great ball. Todd Collins threw
Speaker 1: a great catchable football. So that's what we're looking for.
Speaker 1: We're looking for a guy to give me the ball,
Speaker 1: give me the opportunity to make a play and he
Speaker 1: throws a great pass and so that's why you know,
Speaker 1: I would say those guys.
Speaker 2: Man, great question be Mitch, I'm gonna hit you with
Speaker 2: one next.
Speaker 3: All right, got you.
Speaker 1: These rookies lives are about to change in a weekend.
Speaker 1: What's one piece of advice you would offer to them
Speaker 1: heading into the DMV as somebody that has made the
Speaker 1: DMV home.
Speaker 3: Don't believe anything you here. Listen to me. No, I'll
Speaker 3: say this.
Speaker 4: You know you now don't have mom and dad there
Speaker 4: with you. You have to be the leader of your life.
Speaker 4: And if you have a veteran on the team or
Speaker 4: either like Tanner said earlier talking to white size parents,
Speaker 4: we have a lot of guys in the area, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, A lot of guys in the
Speaker 4: area that are willing to talk to you. You don't
Speaker 4: have to, God, go out there and reinvent the ship.
Speaker 4: You know you need just reinvent the wheel. You just
Speaker 4: want to You want to have people who've been through
Speaker 4: it that can help guide you. And I think, don't
Speaker 4: be afraid to ask. That's the problem so many young
Speaker 4: guys today. They don't want to ask ask questions because
Speaker 4: no question is stupid. You always hear people saying that
Speaker 4: it's an absolute truth. If you ask somebody something, guess
Speaker 4: what the dude standing next to you he want that
Speaker 4: same answer. So and you ask somebody that can help
Speaker 4: guide you along. They can stop you from making a
Speaker 4: lot of mistakes, especially in DC.
Speaker 3: I mean d C will gobble you up.
Speaker 4: I played in d C, Philly and New York, three
Speaker 4: cities that can eat.
Speaker 2: You alive and.
Speaker 4: York. And when I was older, I went to Philly
Speaker 4: in New York. I was still asking questions because there
Speaker 4: are certain areas.
Speaker 3: You don't want to be in.
Speaker 4: Certain ways you have to act, and you have to
Speaker 4: respect culture, okay. And I would tell every one of
Speaker 4: the guys you know, coach and when you if you
Speaker 4: get into the commander's building, ask anybody.
Speaker 3: I'll give you my phone number. They'll get to me.
Speaker 4: I can let you know the dudes and don'ts I
Speaker 4: had brothers and sisters when I was growing up. I'm
Speaker 4: the youngest of seven kids, and my brothers kept me
Speaker 4: out a lot of crap because they had already been
Speaker 4: in that crowd, you know.
Speaker 3: So you better make sure you.
Speaker 4: Ask questions to make and get and have some confidence
Speaker 4: people that you can have around you and let you know,
Speaker 4: everywhere I see town, I see student, you gotta have
Speaker 4: somebody that's gonna want your back, you know. Don't just
Speaker 4: be finding new guys to hang out. Find someone that
Speaker 4: you trust in and be with them all the time.
Speaker 2: I want to shine in on that that question.
Speaker 1: It's all about just being smart, you understand. Like the
Speaker 1: DMV is a great place to be.
Speaker 2: I mean that's what people find it finding hard that
Speaker 2: people asking me all the time, Hey, you back in Miami. No,
Speaker 2: I'm in the DMV.
Speaker 1: I go to Miami time and time, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: I love it up there. I mean, it's just one
Speaker 1: of those places where you know you can. When I
Speaker 1: first got there, I remember Gary Clark, and it's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I say, you know, some of
Speaker 1: these guys that's playing now when you see us around,
Speaker 1: feel free because I didn't reach out and ask Gary anything.
Speaker 1: He made it his duty to talk to me, you understand.
Speaker 1: So it was times I'd be sitting at the you know,
Speaker 1: we and up we had the Redskins at the time,
Speaker 1: it was called the Redskins or their They're luncheon right
Speaker 1: before the season, and Gary'll find me like, Hey, you
Speaker 1: ever leave here, bro, you'll be stupid.
Speaker 2: I didn't, dude, I always tell me this every year.
Speaker 1: But then I realized and the first year that I was,
Speaker 1: I was done playing. He hadn't seen me the whole
Speaker 1: offseason or season I was. I was actually getting my
Speaker 1: NBA and I came back up for a game and
Speaker 1: he's like, then, I take you not to leave. I said, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm in school. So he was like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: He's like, you bet not leak, and I'm like, trust me,
Speaker 1: I'm not that dumb. But the reason why I brain
Speaker 1: is up because there was guys like Gary that told
Speaker 1: me don't leave. It's so much up there for you.
Speaker 1: And the true addition, the history of our team's while
Speaker 1: we trying so hard to get that back with how
Speaker 1: we play on the field. You know, that's the only
Speaker 1: way we can get it back. Got to show up
Speaker 1: and go out there and down there on the field.
Speaker 1: But also we got to have the right people in
Speaker 1: the office to put those guys on the field that's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to bring that back.
Speaker 2: But it was started by those guys.
Speaker 1: You know, be Minched, Gary Clark, Mark, you know, Art Monk,
Speaker 1: Drek Green, all those guys was a part of those
Speaker 1: championship teams that allowed me, myself that played ten years
Speaker 1: in the DMV to be able to walk around my
Speaker 1: head high. Not because I played well, but because they
Speaker 1: brought so much history, rich history.
Speaker 2: All I had to do is show up and play,
Speaker 2: and I did that.
Speaker 1: So any guy, I would tell you come here to
Speaker 1: them and be about your business. Handle your business, because
Speaker 1: if you handle your business, trust me, the city gonna
Speaker 1: treat you well.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You around a plause of these gentlemen, You around a
Speaker 1: plause of these gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, man. We love your guys's questions.
Speaker 1: We love talking to commanders family, and we got you
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Speaker 2: That's what the Mouth of the South.
Speaker 1: Fred Smooth our guy, and Michael Jason and London Fletcher
Speaker 1: joins the show and they do a mock of the
Speaker 1: first ten picks of the draft, so it's all draft related.
Speaker 2: Make sure you go check that out.
Speaker 1: We also have the Ticket to the Draft podcast that's
Speaker 1: on Spotify and Apple Podcasts Epic seven.
Speaker 2: Round Mock Draft.
Speaker 1: They go through every single pick that the commanders could
Speaker 1: possibly make. That's what your guy, Logan Paul said. We
Speaker 1: got my producer here, a Jason over there, just the guy.
Speaker 1: He does a great job on that, so y'all make
Speaker 1: sure y'all check that out as well. And then tomorrow
Speaker 1: we have a special Command Center Draft Night, Live special
Speaker 1: for y'all.
Speaker 2: Were us three.
Speaker 1: We'll be right on the ground give you everything you
Speaker 1: need to know about what the commanders are doing with
Speaker 1: their number two pick. And not only that, we'll be
Speaker 1: on pre but we'll also be live on the clock.
Speaker 1: So soon as the commander's on the clock, we go
Speaker 1: live and we talk about everything you need to know
Speaker 1: before that pick is made.
Speaker 2: And it's not just us, we got the whole squad
Speaker 2: with us, Fred and Jenks.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be out at a fan rally out on
Speaker 1: the DMV with the people amongst the people like they
Speaker 1: like to be. We have Logan Paulson, London Fletcher, and
Speaker 1: Brad Weinstein. They're all gonna be in the studio and
Speaker 1: ask for so we have three different locations. We will
Speaker 1: be coming live to you guys for only the best
Speaker 1: for our commander's family. Speaking of the best, let's ask
Speaker 1: one more question from our commander's family, and this is
Speaker 1: from Derek Wingham. Do you think we are going to
Speaker 1: make a trade to get back in the first round
Speaker 1: to draft alignment? Now we're remembering these hashtag raise hell
Speaker 1: to leave your questions. We got tom left, so make
Speaker 1: sure y'all put those in there, fellas. Do you think
Speaker 1: we are going to make a trade to get back
Speaker 1: into the first round to draft offensive line?
Speaker 3: I don't know if I think we will. I hope
Speaker 3: we will, hope we will.
Speaker 4: Listen, man, I played quarterback in high school and college,
Speaker 4: and I played running back in the league. You could
Speaker 4: sit up here and get all of the great skill
Speaker 4: positions you want. If you don't have that injured in
Speaker 4: the transmission of your football team, you're wasting your time.
Speaker 4: You need an offensive line, you need a defensive.
Speaker 3: Line, and we have.
Speaker 4: We had one of the most popular lines in the
Speaker 4: history of football, the Halls, and for some reason people
Speaker 4: got away from that.
Speaker 3: They going to get everything, but they never would remember.
Speaker 4: At one point we had Chris Samuels who had a
Speaker 4: neck injury, but we had no legitimate left tackle backup
Speaker 4: on the team.
Speaker 3: That makes no sense to me.
Speaker 4: So I think we should go back and get a
Speaker 4: left tackle and have another backup somewhere along the way.
Speaker 3: It never hurt.
Speaker 4: Because if you got a if a guy could play
Speaker 4: left tackle very well, he could probably play every position
Speaker 4: on the offensive line. So yes, I would love to
Speaker 4: see it, because I heard Adam and the last time
Speaker 4: he spoke, he said, yeah, man, we have those two
Speaker 4: high picks in the second round. You never know what
Speaker 4: could happen. I'm hoping that means we're gonna move back
Speaker 4: up and.
Speaker 1: Get some now Tanna and Command Center. Like you mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: Fritz Smooth had actually said that. He said, I want
Speaker 1: to take those top two second rounders and go back
Speaker 1: into that first Do you think there's value in keeping
Speaker 1: two high second rounders or do you say, man, package
Speaker 1: those up, let's.
Speaker 2: Get back in that first one.
Speaker 1: You have leverage, so take advantage of one and trade
Speaker 1: the other one.
Speaker 2: I think you can use either one.
Speaker 1: You can either say, okay, I'm gonna use my thirty
Speaker 1: six pick, or or I can say I have the
Speaker 1: fortieth picks, so I use that one and I use
Speaker 1: thirty six to get myself back up in the first round.
Speaker 1: I think it's almost vital for us to do that, honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean, especially depending on how those tackles get off
Speaker 1: the board. You know, if those tackles stalking off the board,
Speaker 1: we got to solidify that position. There's no way, there's
Speaker 1: no way other than doing that through the draft. Right now,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't have nobody else that's that's basically
Speaker 1: that's still in the deal for that spot.
Speaker 2: So we have to find somebody in the draft.
Speaker 1: And I think if you can use that thirty six
Speaker 1: pick the movie find yourself back up into the.
Speaker 2: First man, you might get lucky.
Speaker 1: You know, I have the privilege of talking to two
Speaker 1: guys that I feel like every day or half of
Speaker 1: the week, you know, Logan Paulson and Fred Smooth when
Speaker 1: it comes to talking about draft picks and draft and
Speaker 1: all these guys, you know, basically breaking down and are
Speaker 1: critiquing these guys they're some of the best in the business.
Speaker 2: And listening to some of their setups.
Speaker 1: About how they would slide up or slide down, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I've been sitting up there. I say, now, I don't
Speaker 1: say a word, I just listen, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm very observative. But one of the things that Fred
Speaker 1: said that made a lot of sense, is you know,
Speaker 1: getting back up in the first round and if you
Speaker 1: have to, you know, give somebody a player or another
Speaker 1: pick to be able to do that. And I think
Speaker 1: it's easy for us to do that now. The guy
Speaker 1: that you might want to go after, because if you're
Speaker 1: looking at some of those guys, if we get back
Speaker 1: up there and if you go the way some of
Speaker 1: these PFF grades are saying, a guy that's in the
Speaker 1: twenties area of memes from Georgia, that guy that we
Speaker 1: all of them, we know, he's a young buck, theyn't
Speaker 1: even play a lot, but it's a huge dude, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But we just need somebody for that position.
Speaker 1: We need somebody that we can have to come in
Speaker 1: that's gonna be solidifying that left tackle spot.
Speaker 2: So who knows who's.
Speaker 1: Gonna be the guy that's available already around that time
Speaker 1: if we do that. But I think it's vita that
Speaker 1: we do so, and fellas, we got the perfect fan
Speaker 1: question to match this, and we're actually getting these fan
Speaker 1: questions from the people in the audience right now.
Speaker 2: So thank y'all so much. Say j'all, matter of fact.
Speaker 1: When I say your name, raise your hand if this
Speaker 1: is your question, just so we can show you love.
Speaker 1: So say we do stay in the second round, Say
Speaker 1: we keep one of those picks.
Speaker 2: All right, this is from Matt. Matt where you at?
Speaker 2: Here you go? Man? All right, Ron, we appreciate you. Man,
Speaker 2: nice sir.
Speaker 1: So, Matt wants to know, if we do stay in
Speaker 1: the second round, what position would you focus on taking in.
Speaker 2: The second round.
Speaker 4: I'm still going left tackle. I'm still trying to build
Speaker 4: my offensive line. We were four years of building the
Speaker 4: defense and we didn't care about the offense. So you
Speaker 4: gotta put some some emphasis on building your defense. I
Speaker 4: mean the officer line San Francisco, where Adam came from.
Speaker 4: He walked in, they had a defensive line. Trent Williams
Speaker 4: end up being over there, right, They didn't stop there.
Speaker 4: They got some more. So when you have Trent and
Speaker 4: his crew going against that d line every day, what happens.
Speaker 4: So I remember back in the day in nineteen ninety
Speaker 4: one where it was a Hogs against the Capitol defense,
Speaker 4: Charles Mann and crew going against Joja Kobe and crew.
Speaker 4: When we win the games, that was easy because they
Speaker 4: were going through the best of the best every day.
Speaker 4: So when we built that D line like that, I
Speaker 4: would go to some of the private D line was
Speaker 4: destroying our officer line. And I'm looking like when they
Speaker 4: get in the game, were going against some TV people,
Speaker 4: that's probably building our D line. But you got to
Speaker 4: make sure that your offensive line, like today the most
Speaker 4: important position in sports in football, because I think hockey
Speaker 4: is probably appearing. The hockey goal is tougher than the quarterback.
Speaker 4: Playing quarterback is tough. But you gotta protect that guy.
Speaker 4: He's the most expensive guy out there. How the hell
Speaker 4: do you not try and protect him. How do you
Speaker 4: think it's okay not to go get office alignment to
Speaker 4: protect that guy? When everyone say, oh, how important the
Speaker 4: quarterback is, how violently he is, how expensive he is, Well,
Speaker 4: you got expensive stuff. What you do, you're protected, right,
Speaker 4: So you should be looking at office a line whoever
Speaker 4: you can look for him, because this offensive line has
Speaker 4: to be if we're gonna go on a run, we
Speaker 4: need the offensive line that's gonna be good for five
Speaker 4: to seven years to be able to go on that
Speaker 4: type of run.
Speaker 1: And then I gotta imagine you feel the same way
Speaker 1: snow brushing with another fan question.
Speaker 2: This is from I'm assuming ed or ed ed my
Speaker 2: boy got the championship. Now I see you for door.
Speaker 2: You a whole vibe.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: Man, we appreciate you. It's questions. It is for you.
Speaker 1: A young quarterback can get injured or fall flat their
Speaker 1: rookie year. As we see any concerns with the new
Speaker 1: guy coming in and running this offense. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk about anything that's not saying prosperity
Speaker 1: and good man, let's get all the positive. I mean,
Speaker 1: but that's you know, it's football, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the things that you know, we sit here to this
Speaker 1: day and talk about the what ELF's about RG three,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the what IFFs and you know,
Speaker 1: things happen in this sport, you know. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I think if we sit there and hang
Speaker 1: our hats on the negative part of the game, then
Speaker 1: we're not giving ourselves a chance to see that guy
Speaker 1: or whoever it may be, have the kind of career
Speaker 1: that we wanted to have, you know.
Speaker 2: So I won't get caught up on that.
Speaker 1: All I could do is say, whoever we get, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that we hit with it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that we're we're dead on.
Speaker 1: That's the guy that we want it and that's the
Speaker 1: guy that come in here and do what we need
Speaker 1: to be done. But like I said before, it's a
Speaker 1: team sport. It's a team sport. So regardless of the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, if we don't take care of those other areas,
Speaker 1: which I know these guys are going to because they've
Speaker 1: done everything else.
Speaker 2: Up to this point so well.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, we can just throw so much
Speaker 1: praise out there to Adam and those guys and crew.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you look at our team on paper
Speaker 1: from last year, the guys that were left and the
Speaker 1: guys that we brought in already that much better, you know.
Speaker 1: So now it's all about just to lid Offindy a
Speaker 1: couple of key positions in the draft, to bring some
Speaker 1: ready to play now guys in office of line or
Speaker 1: left tackle, quarterback, you know, maybe a cornerback here and there.
Speaker 1: You know, if we can hit with those guys, man,
Speaker 1: we might we give ourselves a chance to go out
Speaker 1: there and really compete this year and have.
Speaker 2: A winter season.
Speaker 3: Robin hit his first year. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4: The problem with Robin was decisions that were being made
Speaker 4: behind the scenes that made him think he was bigger
Speaker 4: than the team. And once you start thinking you're bigger
Speaker 4: than the team, your team will turn on you. So
Speaker 4: I hope that the decisions that happen no matter who
Speaker 4: the quarterback is, that quarterback comes and he hits, make
Speaker 4: sure he stays humble. Make sure he understands that you
Speaker 4: can't do a damn thing by yourself. You know. I
Speaker 4: would make a point when I was in college, when
Speaker 4: I ran a player through a pass, I always saw
Speaker 4: someone who didn't do the best job. But at the
Speaker 4: end of the game, I would talk about how great
Speaker 4: of a job he did, and they will come up
Speaker 4: to him and say, man, I miss that block. I said, no,
Speaker 4: I man, you were fighting hard. The next game, he
Speaker 4: didn't miss the play. When I became a kick and
Speaker 4: a part returner, I always knew who threw the block,
Speaker 4: the block that sprung me. I also knew who missed
Speaker 4: the block. MAGGI saw something, But I found a way
Speaker 4: to praise those guys. That quarterback has to play that game, okay,
Speaker 4: And if the quarterback understands that mindset when he hits,
Speaker 4: he could bring everybody else along with him because long
Speaker 4: as your quarterback respects you, you're never going to try
Speaker 4: to go out there and be the one that makes
Speaker 4: a mistake and cause him to make a bad play.
Speaker 4: So I just think that that whole thing got caught,
Speaker 4: got too much hype going with it. But whoever, the
Speaker 4: people in place right now, Hell, you meet Josh Harris,
Speaker 4: they spend six billion dollars. You would not think they
Speaker 4: spend six billion doll because they're the most downloaded people
Speaker 4: in the world.
Speaker 2: They should spend.
Speaker 4: I think they're leading with that mindset to where they're
Speaker 4: very humble, and I think this team could be great
Speaker 4: and be humble. If you've been around long enough to
Speaker 4: remember back in the day they were winning Super Bowls,
Speaker 4: but they were in the community all the time.
Speaker 3: They were hanging out with people.
Speaker 4: It was a connection, and I think that's what you
Speaker 4: have to build on and worried about that more. That's
Speaker 4: why I want to see guys hanging out with each other,
Speaker 4: because when I am cool with you, like.
Speaker 3: We go on the road for games, we hang I
Speaker 3: don't want nothing to happen to them.
Speaker 4: And when I come on this show, I want to
Speaker 4: be great to make sure they gonna be looking great.
Speaker 3: And they do the same for me. You get that
Speaker 3: happening on this football team. Skoyt's limbs.
Speaker 1: Great fan questions, y'all. They do so much for being here,
Speaker 1: be miss. I'm gonna ask you a quick question than
Speaker 1: and with Tannas. We got one more quick fan question
Speaker 1: from Tanna. But I want to talk to you about
Speaker 1: this because.
Speaker 2: This because.
Speaker 1: Soda Ted didn't mentioned dan Quinn ani Peter's in their collaboration.
Speaker 2: You mentioned this a little early, and I want you
Speaker 2: to touch on this. If I feel like they deserve
Speaker 2: their flowers. They have to kept this so close to
Speaker 2: the vest.
Speaker 1: What they're gonna do with number two, do all the
Speaker 1: speculations through being new, through being first time collaborator together.
Speaker 1: How impressed have you been with Adam Peters and dan
Speaker 1: Quinn so far?
Speaker 4: I've been super impressed because I canna be honest with you, man.
Speaker 4: There's been a lot of coaches Stam's come through here
Speaker 4: and I'll be walking in the weirdest places and people
Speaker 4: give me information and I'm like really, and I just
Speaker 4: sit back and it is exactly what they told me about.
Speaker 3: No one has said anything. Okay.
Speaker 4: I went in the same places where I got information
Speaker 4: before and getting no information no more for them to
Speaker 4: be able to hold this thing that close to the vest.
Speaker 4: And I think what it is they are processed driven
Speaker 4: to where I'm going to talk to you, you, you, you, you,
Speaker 4: and then I'm gonna go back and talk to y'all again,
Speaker 4: because I want to see if you gonna remember the
Speaker 4: suff They have kind of that lawyer's mindset, you know,
Speaker 4: to me to where I'm gonna ask questions. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: come and ask you that same question a different way
Speaker 4: to see if you're on your p's and q's. So
Speaker 4: they doing the damn good job. And I mean, they
Speaker 4: did a great job this far, and I've been thoroughly
Speaker 4: impressed because I thought something would have came.
Speaker 3: Out by now.
Speaker 4: We wanted it to go a lot of people speculating,
Speaker 4: and that's exactly what they're doing. Yep, listen, chefter, y'all
Speaker 4: follow all of them, Okay, they.
Speaker 3: Are speculating just like we do locally.
Speaker 4: They're the best of the best, and I admire the
Speaker 4: jobs that they do, but they don't know anything. They're
Speaker 4: guessing just like the rest of us.
Speaker 1: He missed Tanner Man, y'all kill this fans y'all killed it.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you y'all so much. Now, for those of y'all,
Speaker 1: we know y'all are here because y'all are familiar, but
Speaker 1: those y'all are familiar with command Center.
Speaker 2: Tanner is known as.
Speaker 1: Like the drippiest, swaggiest God. I'll try my best, but
Speaker 1: Tanna does this thing right. Tanna got the shoes to
Speaker 1: the hat all the time. So this last question is
Speaker 1: from a fan for Tanna. Now this is from our
Speaker 1: producer Kayla Key, who's back in asspron She's gonna be
Speaker 1: holding down the.
Speaker 2: Studio for us.
Speaker 1: This question is Draft night is the time to show
Speaker 1: up and show out?
Speaker 2: What did you wear on Draft night? Brother? Did you
Speaker 2: start with the shoes, jewelry or what's it the clothes
Speaker 2: that you haven't had? How'd you have you pull it together?
Speaker 1: Oh? Okay, so that's an easy one. Well you got
Speaker 1: to think I was twenty one. Yeah, so I wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to dress to impress back then. I was as
Speaker 1: urban as they come back and it was there. Everything
Speaker 1: Sean John and Foobu was around, so I was wearing
Speaker 1: one of the other. But honestly, to be real with you,
Speaker 1: it's crazy how things transpire at the time.
Speaker 2: You know how when you're getting ready to get.
Speaker 1: Selected and you know you want those guys. Different brands
Speaker 1: will say, hey, you want to dress you. We want
Speaker 1: you to we want to potentially sign a deal with you,
Speaker 1: or you sign a deal with us, but we want
Speaker 1: to dress you first. See if you like these clothes.
Speaker 1: Sewn John sent me a box of clothes, bro I had.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have the pictures here. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: I have to send the pictures to.
Speaker 1: Y'all so y'all can post it. Yeah, it'd be good
Speaker 1: for you know, for off for our show.
Speaker 2: But man, I.
Speaker 1: Remember the night before opening the Big Box and my
Speaker 1: two younger brothers. I'm the oldest in my house and
Speaker 1: my two younger brothers was like, I want this, I
Speaker 1: want that, whatever you don't want. And I put my
Speaker 1: draft fited. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna wear that's right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill him tomorrow. And I put it out,
Speaker 1: laid it on the laid it out on the bed.
Speaker 1: I had to Sean John had to go see I
Speaker 1: still wear hats to these days.
Speaker 2: Had my Sean John had and I had the little
Speaker 2: Sean John White Bell.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was nice I looked nice that day,
Speaker 1: but yeah, man, I was. I was really pleased to
Speaker 1: have somebody to say, hey, this what we want to
Speaker 1: do for you.
Speaker 2: And it was crazy fast forward.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that I was gonna get selected by
Speaker 1: the Jets, and I ended up getting up there and
Speaker 1: having a meeting to to you know, potentially sign a deal.
Speaker 1: I was so busy on oneing to focus on football.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go through some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that I had to do to be a Sean john
Speaker 1: I guess you know model slash, you know guy who
Speaker 1: where's that you know where it's his label. But I
Speaker 1: would appreciate that offer though it was. It was it
Speaker 1: was really dope to have them consider me to being
Speaker 1: one of their guys.
Speaker 4: You know, I have a great decision at this point,
Speaker 4: she wasn't going to I was gonna say you about her.
Speaker 2: The man is family giving up for these gentlemen right here,
Speaker 2: Oh missus saying Taylor Voss.
Speaker 1: For taking the time and wes Man, great job, y'all,
Speaker 1: and also give a round of applause to our producers.
Speaker 1: That's Maddie Benson right there, Jason Johnson. They do all
Speaker 1: the things behind the scenes to make sure our show
Speaker 1: goes well, and we appreciate y'all so much for you
Speaker 1: guys's hard work.
Speaker 2: Now, remember this ain't it for us.
Speaker 1: We will be on the ground draft day doing a
Speaker 1: pre draft show as a command Center pre.
Speaker 2: Draft live special.
Speaker 1: We're talking about everything that we talked about today, but
Speaker 1: dipping a little deeper in. And then when we're on
Speaker 1: the clock on the first round, we will also be live, baby,
Speaker 1: and it won't just be us. We're gonna be suited
Speaker 1: and booted. Paulson is going to be in a suit
Speaker 1: out logan Paul Now, I don't know if it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a full suit, it's gonna be the jacket and
Speaker 1: he's still gonna be wearing shorts. Have no idea, but
Speaker 1: we have as I don't know, you got him a
Speaker 1: couple of days now he's getting he was clutching up
Speaker 1: Logan Paulson, London Fletcher and Brad Weinstein will be out
Speaker 1: in Ashburn holding it down the studio. And then of
Speaker 1: course we have the Mouth of the South, Fritz Smooth
Speaker 1: and Mike Jake's our Get Loud crew will be out
Speaker 1: amongst the fans out in the DMV.
Speaker 2: So we got you fully covered. And it's not just
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Speaker 1: We will all be out there Friday as well, so
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Speaker 2: Us and holding us down.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to eat the food smell so good.
Speaker 1: Hope y'all got something ready for me and Command his family.
Speaker 4: I have a suggestion for him too. Do you salm
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Speaker 2: You know what? Beat Mitch.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said suggestions because I'd love to get
Speaker 1: a prediction on the way out?
Speaker 2: Man. Who do y'all think we taking number two?
Speaker 3: Jd Ohaus?
Speaker 2: That is? Is it a consensus? D Baby?
Speaker 1: I'm JD as well. Command is Family. We love y'all
Speaker 1: appreciates that so much. We cannot wait to see y'all
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. For the twenty twenty four NFL Draft, we
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