WEBVTT - LIVE from Detroit: 2024 NFL Draft Pre-Show | Podcast | Washington Commanders 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.880 Welcome Commander's family. My name is Brian Cople junr here 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:04.960 a Super Bowl champion, Brian Mitchell, mister A to the 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.520 nine Santay Brothers. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:07.640 We are out here in. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:12.120 Detroit for the twenty twenty four NFL Draft and this 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.960 is your Command Center Draft Special Live presented by SIGI, 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.520 the official partmy take Me partner of the Washington Commanders. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:19.840 And of course we have to give thanks to the 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.080 MGM Grand Detroit for hosting us here, for having us here. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.279 I don't know about y'all. My room's beautiful. I'm having 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.320 a great time. Yeah, my room is beautiful too. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.760 Don't break up rooms with meror. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:31.600 Room was in the lobby for a while. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.400 I was in the lobby four o'clock. We know what 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.280 now we're taking care of. Now, we're comfortable and we 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:38.800 have our commander's family here with us. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:40.280 We thank y'all so much for being here. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.519 We drive from the dmvright and Tonio. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:46.920 We have people from all over us. We appreciate you 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:47.559 guys so much. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.720 And what we like to do here is we like 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.080 to really dive into everything that we're going to dive into. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.160 And the following day, which we're going to have a 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.680 live show Thursday night for the draft, and we're giving 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.320 you everything you need to know about our next kick, 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.000 our first round pick. And what did we always like 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:04.759 to do with these fellas because they played the game, 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.440 because they've been here before. We like to get their memories, 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.640 their times. And both of these brothers have the pleasure 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:11.400 of being drafted. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.280 We missed you went in the fifth round. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.240 Man, Bring us back to that point, and what did 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:16.440 that moment mean for you and your family? 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:17.200 Brother? Well, I went. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:18.960 I was drafted so long ago it wasn't on TV 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.560 to be honest with. But the other thing. You listen, man, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.119 I know every guy waiting to be drafted, they don't 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.480 care which round, which position. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.160 It seems like that you just want to be picked. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.399 Yes, and once your picked, I don't care if it's 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.199 the first pick or the last pick or undrafted free agent. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:38.680 You're an estatic. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.920 You're happy because you know what that lifelong dream is 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.160 finally coming to fruition. You know I got drafted. I 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.840 was sitting there, I was on my sofa sleep. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:49.480 And my phone wrung. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.240 I had that big old Sailor one. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.040 Anybody remember that you had that big sailor one phone 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.520 and they say, we're gonna call you in our next 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.920 next pick, and we're gonna pick you. It was coch 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.760 don bro And once I got drafted, I went to 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.919 the local watering hole and we had a part. You know, listen, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.800 I was fifth rounded, but you would have sworn I 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:09.720 was the first route. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.320 Everything was on the house. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.240 I had a great time, but once I got drafted, 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.400 my mindset immediately went to, now I have to show 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.080 them who I am, what I'm about, and have to 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.760 do it for the long term. And by having that mindset, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.000 I was able to stay around for fourteen years. Yes, 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.200 that draft is only one thing. It's what you do 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.680 after the draft is what's gonna ready to keep you around. 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.360 So be mich I've kind of heard that a bunch 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.240 from like different prospects. If the guys that kind of 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.640 went like outside of the first and second, were you 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.920 sleeping and like trying to relax because you were trying 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.320 to not let the pressure of the situation get to 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:43.880 you or was it just you just knew you were 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.440 getting drafted at some point, Like why were you so 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:46.240 calm in that moment? 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.200 Well, I was frustrated, to be honest with you, because 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:51.480 they told me, I was gonna I mean, the same 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.640 said they were gonna drafted in the second round. Still 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:58.000 as that mentioned third round, those rounds passed. But when 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.680 I was drafted, I forgot about who said they were 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.040 gonna draft me somewhere. I just all I wanted was 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.040 the opportunity. And once you get the opportunity, that's all 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:06.600 that matters. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:06.800 You know. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.760 Listen, Man Tanner, when he got drafted, it didn't make 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.600 it difference the first round. He wanted to prove something 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.080 to somebody. You know, what's inside of you has to 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.000 come out, you know. I always tell people. I see 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.320 everybody every year get that little silver medallion. Do you 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.240 have to work ethic to match that silver medallion? Oh 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:26.920 you're gonna just be wearing that for a bit and 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:27.639 going back home. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.400 Yeah, and you talk about work ethic, Satanna, That's a 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.360 perfect transition to you, my brother, because you were a 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.160 first round pick. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.280 Yeah, talk to us about that. Kind of a different. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.360 Experience for you. But I love hearing your draft stories 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.000 because I know that was a very important time for you. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.320 I mean, yeah, I mean, but he did it on 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.440 the head. I cared less about the round. But at 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.880 that point you got to think about it, I kind 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.119 of came to the back door of college football by 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.800 being a walk on. So to come through the way 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.160 I got into playing ball as a walk on to 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.080 now be leaving as a first round. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.720 Pick or a draft choice. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.560 I was looking at all the stuff that I didn't 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.720 get a chance to experience going into college now I'm 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.400 experiencing now leaving here. You know, far as like being 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.400 a guy that's hardly highly sought out, you know what 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:08.640 I mean. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:09.640 I watched so many. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.880 Guys take these trips to these colleges and you know, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.520 be high recruits, and now here I am going to 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.760 the NFL that that big time recruit. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:17.960 You know. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.480 When it came to singing bows. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:21.240 Money right, yeah, you know what I mean. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:22.560 Yeah, I didn't have to. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.159 On that stuff, so you know, but it was just 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.440 I was ecstatic, though. Bro I looked at it. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.280 I looked at my journey, and I'm like, you know what. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.800 I would do it all over again, because, you know, 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.680 in order for us to do what we do, you know, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.200 you hear a lot of folks say, man, you got 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:37.880 to be a little crazy. Yeah, you gotta be a 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.320 little crazy, but at the same time, you gotta have purpose. Yes, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.839 and I think that's one of the things in life 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.120 that we all have, regardless of if you're playing a professional 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.680 your professional athlete, or you just want to be, you know, 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.560 your every day, nine to five worker. You got to 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.000 have a purpose. And I had a purpose from day one. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.279 My goal was to be an NFL player. When I asked, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.039 when I was asked that question at five and six 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.880 years old, who you want to be when you grow up? 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:58.800 What you want to do when you grow up? 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.880 When I said that to my father, I've always had 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.000 that in my mind. So that was my purpose and 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.640 I was able now to finally see that, you know, 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:06.440 come to fuition. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:06.719 You know. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:11.400 I was a quarterback in college and the Saskatchewan rough 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.520 Riders had my rights and I was basically a first 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.760 round pick to go to Canada. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:18.880 They were gonna know, they need more money. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:23.160 Wow, But I have never dreamed about playing for all Canada. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.599 So I told them, listen, you wait around. If I 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.719 go on that first day, I'm gonna try the NFL. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.120 If I something happened and you can see me. They 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.080 held my rights till I was in my year, my 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.719 eleventh years, you know, and they never let him go. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.760 But the ultimate thing for me was I wanted that 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.440 shot at the NFL. That's what I watched every day. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.120 That's what I wanted to do, and that's why I 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.240 worked so damn hard because I had a guy tell 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.839 and we'll see you at home in a few I 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.960 haven't moved back to Louisiana since nineteen ninety April. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.640 Nineteen ninety a man, and I think you. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:58.760 Have to have that drive. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:00.760 That's why I tell guys off that it's easy to 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.039 be drafted, it's hard as hell to stay around. And 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.000 when you get double digit years like he did and 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.719 I did, that's because we did a little bit. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:09.880 We sacrificed. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.000 We had fun, but we sacrificed and did the things 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:13.800 we needed to do. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.159 And Tanna, Man, I love you mentioned about living in 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.640 your purpose and trying to fulfill your purpose. And ladies 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.679 and gentlemen, if y'all don't know nothing about Santanta mass 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.520 this brother is way too humble. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:24.880 So I gotta give your flowers real quick. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.520 Because back when you were drafting me and you were 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.880 having this conversation a little earlier, a five to ten 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.240 receiver was not highly sought after. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:33.680 A shorter receiver was not. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.160 They didn't understand what that kind of receiver could do 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.000 in the league. Then you get drafted in the first 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.880 round and then things change. You kind of set the 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.560 tones of the smaller receivers and now that's kind of 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.360 the norm for our tennis is the norm? 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:46.520 Man? 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.000 You see a six two receiver, You're like, oh, that's 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.080 a big boy Tanner. Man, how important was that you? 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.000 Cause I'm sure you when you were living in this purpose, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:54.400 you were trying to fill the dream, you didn't really 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.080 realize the impact you're going to have. But now that 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.919 you're on the back end, Man, how important is that 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.200 impact that you've made on the league? 0:06:59.240 --> 0:06:59.880 You know, it's crazy. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:01.960 I talk to you about it and it's just like 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.000 something that comes up. But to tell you the truth, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.600 until someone speaks out to me about it, saying like, hey, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.240 you and Steve Smith kind of changed the whole, you know, 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.280 spectrum of how they view receivers at you guys size. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.520 I don't think about it until I'm hearing it from 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.040 someone else, and at the time, being in the moment, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.160 I paid no attention to it because to be told that, hey, 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.880 what you did for these four years, you can be 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:25.720 the first receiver. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:26.800 But you're not. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.800 Because you're five ten. That sucks, you know what I mean, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.080 because it's like almost telling you, oh, we want you, 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.960 but we don't want, like, come on, let me go 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.400 out here and show you. So I care less about 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.200 the size because I felt like all my life I 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.240 heard you can't do it because you're just small, or 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.400 you ain't gonna do it because you're just small. But 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.960 every time I went out there, I proved you different, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.760 not even trying to prove a point. I didn't have 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.160 a point to prove to no one but myself. You 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.200 see what I'm saying. I didn't play the game to 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:52.840 make sure that you saw something. 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:53.480 I played the. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.880 Game because this is something that I felt that was 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.000 given to me, and I was going to fulfill that 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.600 because you know, sometime, like you say, we all have 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.240 I guess you get blessings. We all have our blessings. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.640 We all gifted with certain things. But if you're not 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.880 living within it, you're not going out there, you're not 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.680 attacking it, then you're missing out. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.000 You're kind of basically wasting that blessing. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.440 So I felt like from day one, I was put 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:15.760 on the field to cut grass. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.040 You know, my feet, the things I can do on 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.760 the football field. What's second to nine, you know what 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:21.160 I'm saying. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.320 So ingo, that was my like. You know, we talked 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:25.920 about going to school. What did you majorre? 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.000 Yeah, majored, but my first major was football. You know 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:29.200 what I. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.719 Finished, I graduated. I went to school twice, you know 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.240 what I mean. I went back and got something else. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.320 But I was there with My purpose was I'm gonna 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.800 do whatever it takes here to make sure it comes 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.800 Saturdays when it's tigning to go out there and lay 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.679 them up, I'm gonna be at my best there. So yeah, man, 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.600 I look back at it now and I smiled. But 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.720 I never cared about that kind of you know, hanging 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.000 over me because at the end of the day, it 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.600 was other guys that were small than me that I 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:55.360 saw play the game. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.079 So I wasn't the first to do it. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.520 I was just probably the first because of the time. 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:01.840 You didn't see too many guys in my side being 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.640 talked about as being a first a high first round 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.199 draft pick, So that was a little different than first, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.040 you know, from just seeing the other guys. Like I 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.600 told you, I grew up in Miami, Mark Duper, Mark Clayton, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.920 those guys were short. You know, I see those guys 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.920 to this day and I'm standing next to them, kind 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.120 of got a couple of inches on them, you know 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.199 what I'm saying. So, but I was enjoying just having 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.480 the opportunity, and I think that's more than anything, Like, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.920 you know, not to get off topic, we was talking 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.319 about some of these guys being drafted today. I mean 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.320 this weekend. One of the things that happened to me 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.160 that I was happy it happened. Like I just told you, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.360 I had the first class treatment going into the draft. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:38.560 I'm a first round pick. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.520 I get selected by the New York Jets. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:41.640 I go up there. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.080 Immediately I get hurt. So I'm like back at square one, 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.120 I'm like, wow, just how quick it came. It could 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.079 be taken, and then I had to reprocess and rethink 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:52.920 all that over again. Say, now I got to dig 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.240 deep and get back into that same guy who was 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.160 hungry enough to get here, and now I got to 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.400 start that process over. So that's another thing these guys 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.160 have to understand. Once you make it, you haven't arrived 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.480 until you really go out there and be specially on 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.480 that field. So don't think that you made it just 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.559 because you got drafted, you still have job to do. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:09.640 Ladies, and. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.720 Applause with Santana Mass man, get his brother's flowers. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:13.960 Man. 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.400 That's beautiful. And you know what command is family. I 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.880 think that's the coolest part about this Command Center thing 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.120 that we do is we have this type of exclusive 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.800 access to legends and grace and people that know how 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.960 to do this, and we also have exclusive access to 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:26.520 our fans. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.240 We want to hear from you now. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.720 We usually do hashtag left hand up in the comments 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.400 to leave your questions for these gentlemen, but we changed 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.120 it up a little bit this year. All Right, things 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.560 is different. Now we're doing hashtag raise hell. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.480 That's h a. I l raise Hell. 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:47.560 Y'all can go into the comments and hashtag raise hell'ies gentlemen. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.439 I will do my best to read them all right 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:50.840 now in front of you guys, so y'all can get 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.440 y'all questions answered, and you know what being this before 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:54.800 we move on, because you know I'm saying, since we 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.920 give it flowers to Santana Mass brother, I think we 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:58.480 need to get flowers you too as well, because you 0:10:58.480 --> 0:10:59.720 said it coming out of college. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.120 You wore a quarterback. You wore a black quarterback. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.120 At a time where that wasn't as popular as it 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:06.680 is now. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.120 Five ten and a half. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.080 But now you look at this league now and you 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.040 see shorter brothers playing quarterback, and it's almost what people 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:15.920 are really looking for. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:16.760 Be miss man. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.160 How great is it to see the NFL develop and 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:20.440 change the way it has since Uni? 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:21.079 You played? Well? 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.240 It's great to see it because I think the ultimate 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.440 thing is, for a period the NFL wanted to say 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.800 what size you needed to be to be able to 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.200 play a position. I returned kicks and punts. I left 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.880 the NFL and you can look at the records and 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:39.199 figure him out, but I was not the prototypical return side. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.480 Barry Sanders was what two hundred pounds one night, Emmon 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:45.719 Smith was about two oh three. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.000 I played at two twenty. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.160 I got up to two twenty two twenty one, and 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.360 I was still considered a small back. Because the league 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.880 likes to tell you what you're supposed to be to 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.280 do something. I was the guy that wasn't very I 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.720 don't dance. I don't dance in clubs, I don't dance 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.480 on the field. So at two twenty one I still 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.520 could put down the four to four and I'll put 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.679 my shoulder passing your chest. So I played running back 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.800 and kick return like a linebacker. And now to see 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.800 these guys playing quarterback and being given the opportunity because 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.360 they are the better athlete on the field. They can 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.880 still process and think and do different things. You know, 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.560 I'm watching Kyler Murray and Bryce Young. I don't know 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.439 what they're saying about Bryce Young. I was at the 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.760 Super Bowl and I stood next to him. Dude is 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.400 not five eleven or not. I'm told that he is 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.920 because I know I saw the top of his head. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:39.320 On an angle. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.560 You give up the secrets, man, He is not that. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.800 But I like the fact that, Hell, Johnny Manzil wasn't 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:45.360 super tall. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.959 What's my game, my Baker Mayfield is not tall. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.800 If the dude can spin the football and the dude 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.800 could think through it, give him a chance to be 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:53.920 the best pass on the team. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.480 He needs to be the best. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.160 Everybody that's six ' five and take a snap can't 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.720 be a great quarterback some of them. And the league 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.559 has gotten faster today, so you can't go with these 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.960 slow guys too much. You gotta get somebody that can 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.680 move and today when you look at it, you have 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:14.079 to be athletic, not very fast, but you have to 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.760 be able to move and extend to be a good 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.160 quarterback in the league today. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:19.120 And be missed. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.959 You're always ahead of the curve, brother, because you know what, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:22.760 I could talk to you all day about, you know, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.719 y'all experiences. But you know, we got to talk a 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.640 little bit of draft. The draft is tomorrow. Commanders have 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.680 six picks in the top one hundred. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.600 Well, yeah, there you go. I love him. I'm talking 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:31.839 about it. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:32.240 Yo. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.760 I'm excited too. This is amazing, you. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.679 Know what I'm saying, six picks in the top one 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.640 hundred nine picks overall. But were talking quarterbacks. That's what 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:41.600 everybody want to talk about. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.080 So let's talk quarterbacks. Just run it down the line. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.000 Jadeen Daniels, A lot of people have favored him as 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.160 the next quarterback taken after Caleb Williams. We all assume 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.360 that Keayler Williams is going to the Chicago Bears. Be Mitch, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.080 Jaden Daniels, what have you seen from this brother that 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.880 makes you say, you know what, I trust this guy 0:13:58.960 --> 0:13:59.520 to lead the team. 0:13:59.559 --> 0:13:59.959 Electric. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:05.160 I think what happens is the assumption has been Caleb 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.480 is going to Chicago. But I talked to the guy 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:13.000 today on the show and he was like, people are 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.800 comparing Jayden to the rest of the quarterbacks. Jadans should 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.840 be compared to Kayla. And he said, when you start 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.760 looking at it, really look at Jaden's year last year 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:29.920 compared to Caleb's, Jayden might be the better quarterback. So 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.080 when you start hearing that, you go, Okay, if this 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.320 guy should be in comparison to the guy everyone is 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:38.880 assumed will be the number one pick. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.440 If you get a chance of picking, you take him. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.440 You know, we were talking earlier before we started the 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.280 show where everybody wants to say, oh, man, he could 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.280 be great because he runs the ball a lot. No, no, no, 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.760 he passed for three thousand, eight hundred yards. Okay, he 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.440 had forty touchdowns, four innerceptions, and then he ran for 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:58.120 over a thousand. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:01.280 That's exceptional. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.840 But I talk with Greg cor Sell, somebody a highly 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:08.040 highly respect and Greg Cosall was like, listen, people want 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.200 to sit up here and just look at his athleticism. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.800 He said, this guy in the pocket is as good 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.840 as anybody in this draft. So when you look at 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.800 a guy that could spin it with the best of them, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.760 and he's gotten better every year. And it troubles me 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.800 when people go, well, all he did was get better, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.320 That's what the hell he's supposed to do, all right, 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.600 And I can't assume that the guy got better every 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.280 year three years at Arizona State. Then he comes here 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.320 and he got better at LSU in a conference where 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.240 the best football players out there. On top of that, 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.360 he had a coach who's a maniac and an idiot, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:42.440 could be crazy. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.040 He dealt with him, and he had a he had 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.600 a he had a fan. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.440