WEBVTT - Jonathan Allen Sits Down with the GREATS | The Player’s Club | Washington Commanders | NFL 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:05.680 You know, I was like a bat arena out there 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:06.160 on the field. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.639 Man light. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:13.400 I was light on my toes out there. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.040 Maybe bull rust of center threw him down, hit the 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:17.680 full back and slacked the quarterback. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:19.560 I was like, man, he can start for us to 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.000 get you can start from. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.040 The Players Club is brought to you by Pepsi, the 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:35.360 official soft drink of the Washington Commanders. Welcome into season 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:40.479 three of the Emmy nominated Players Club. We got a 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:45.720 new guest man, new co host Sean Springs. He spent 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:50.599 five seasons in the Burgundy and Gold. Thirteen year NFL veteran, 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.040 Welcome to the show. I'm happy to be man, this 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.200 is this is this is an honor to be with greatness. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:56.320 Man. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.920 I'm the presence you back home. I'm this is home man. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.600 Man, We're gonna have a fun We're gonna have a 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.360 fun time. For those of you maybe tuning in for 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.280 the first time, the Players Club this is We're gonna 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.080 be chopping it up with current Washington Commanders players and 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:15.039 also former Washington Legends players, talking live, talking football, talking 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.960 just all the things that we love to talk about. Sean, Man, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.520 I I just think about two thousand and seven when 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.720 I came here, joined you as a teammate, Man, what 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.039 was that We welcome London, then, man, we welcome we 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:30.160 need with. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.240 That experience because you thought he was the captain. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:35.840 I didn't think I was a captain. I thought I 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.560 was a superman. I needed to be made it was 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.720 gonna be be But London was the captain. It was 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.200 they brought me. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:48.760 They needed some leadership, definitely. Not only did I bring 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.360 the leadership, I brought some playmaker. But no, Shan Man 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:52.040 he was a baller. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:53.800 Heck, you knew, you you. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:59.120 Know practice early that he was gonna talk highly about himself. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.000 And oh I remember, you know Sean. Sean is the 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.320 real reason. You know, Sean enough credit, CP get a 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.320 lot of the credit, but Sean is also the guy 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.560 who I got to give credit to. Because it wasn't 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.799 for him bringing in mail trainer, I would have never 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.880 probably had the longest, you know, the career that I 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.760 had because when I got here, I was broke up. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.440 You know that first the first four years in New York, Man, 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.760 I was beat up. And Sean told Cep, hey, man, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.840 I'll be seeing twent of me working on his hamstrings. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.480 And you know, inside I look, what's your coming room? 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.880 Tell me to come see my guy. And Ceep called 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.600 me like, hey, man, Sean got this guy, come meet him. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.160 Mail saw me and he saw me from the introduction 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.440 of just saying hey, what's up that something was going 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.280 on with me, right and the rest is history. So 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:40.280 I gotta give you credit for that. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.919 Man, gotta be a professional man, help out your teammates out. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.480 Yeah, But I and that defensive meeting room man, we 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:47.720 had some We have some. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.720 Dog characters to character. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.880 When you say character, the first thing comes to my friends. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.360 Damn smooth smooth and Colos Rogers. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.480 Man Wais was our defensive courd that. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.600 But by the way, did y'all see that TikTok on 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.959 Greg still going off on people in the meeting rooms? 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.239 So there was a TikTok last week about Greg. Of 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.920 course Greg was Greg. He's you know, he got the 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.560 red dot Lennon. So everybody learning to tell you Greg 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.079 when you can tell when Greg depends on what he's 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.960 wearing that yeah, he's on one. So Greg shitting at 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.919 the TikTok is like Greg sitting at the front of 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.600 the meeting room and he's just going over there. It 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.680 was like snippets like meetings Greg that of course he's 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.400 cutting people out, he's holding them accountable. He's yelling at him, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.560 and everybody's like, you see the guys heads down. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.000 You gotta be authentic with hisself. It won't be great 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.840 if it wasn't that route. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.760 When Greg used to talk all this, you know, his 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.840 bravado and all this stuff. I thought Greg was funny 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:50.280 to me as a head coach. I knew him as 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.880 a head coach, totally different as a head coach than 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.640 he was as a defensive coordinator. One thing I will 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.240 say about him, dude can call the defense. He had 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.720 a great feel of when to call plays. So because 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.280 everybody has plays and you know you're going to it 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.840 with a game plan, but no one went to call 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.600 a certain defense. Just having a great feeldy also would 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.160 allow me to call it myself. He just like he 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.359 just point at me, like, look, you gotta just just 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:20.080 call it that. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.599 We did play a lot of better bands that yeah, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:26.440 Greg blotch. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.000 But one of the things that I like about what 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.760 g Dubb and that whole defense we said, we had characters. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.200 I think the biggest thing for us with the staff 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.200 and I think what London helped was everybody kind of 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:44.480 knew their role. London knew like Fridays, you know, London 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.360 knew that he was the guy that coach relied on 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.520 to make sure that these guys knew what they were 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.039 doing being lined up. So I will say that London 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.080 kept that meeting room because we did have some characters 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.120 we'd have been joking abound we left dvs, but London 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.960 made sure this is the script, what are the checks, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.599 what are we doing? And I think that was needed. 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.640 Then we had guys where you knew like, hey man, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.599 I'm out here to cover the best guy. I'm gonna 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.960 make a play. You know, Sean's gonna just be fantastic. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.120 He's just Sean Taylor, Sean Taylor, and he's just listen. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.680 I'm glad you brought up Sean Taylor. And I'm a 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.080 two stories about Sean, and you remember this. We're getting 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.000 ready to play the Giants. The thing we started off 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:28.520 the season two or No. Seven seven, and I've told 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.000 the story of our players club, but now we got 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.920 we got Blue and by the way, we're gonna call 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.960 him Blue. That's a nick that we got for Sean Blue. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.480 So I'm gonna refer to him as Blue. So we're 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.119 getting ready to play the Giants, and we were having 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.480 like a kind of bad practice to start, because I 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.880 think we start off special teams and like balls were 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:54.320 being dropped and something happened in the defense where they 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.599 just were we weren't clicking where we needed to be clicking. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.800 So I, being a company and as a leader, I 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.880 say something, yell something like, man, y'all need picked up. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.119 You picked this up, Sean, that's DoD thinks I'm talking 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:13.200 to him. Sean Taylor think something. Think I'm going at him. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.440 So because I didn't know he had, I think he had. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.920 He was back there catching punch from I think he 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.239 might have dropped the pun or something. So he's thinking 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.880 I'm going going at him and him get him to 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.520 it on the sideline, I remember, So we get it 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.400 to it on the sideline. So you got to alf 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.880 for mail. I'm not backing down. He backing down. It 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.919 took it took Blue. He came to me. I guess 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:41.440 he knew, having been shot teammate for a while. He's like, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.200 I ain't gonna be at a cop him. Let me 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:52.720 go cops. He's like he said loved to let it go, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.800 got it go the way he said it. It was like, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.200 you know what, all right, right right, you know what, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.840 you're good, I'm gonna let it go. But I just 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:11.000 happened to have this conversation maybe two days ago. Somebody 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.880 was asking me about Sean Taylor and like how good 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:15.920 could he have been? 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.600 I say, man, I played with Hall of famers. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.880 I think we all had, you know, experience where we 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.239 either play with guys who currently in the Pro Football 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.000 Hall of Fame or will future be future Hall of Famer. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.120 I was like, this is just he was just scratching 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.080 the surfer. Ye like scratching the surfa. He was here 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.080 with the ability that he was going to get to 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:37.520 this point. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.760 I was like, man, did y'all feel that same way? 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.520 I mean, you look at the year that he left 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.560 for us. Already before he you know, that season one 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.400 nowhere near halfway done, and he was already his numbers 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.200 was godly, you know, compared to what he had got 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.040 recognized for already for being a great season. He had 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.640 four picks that year, had them missed about four games. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:58.880 Three heard his knee, you know what I mean? 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.840 On him, he was on a pace that that season 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.280 alone to just out do everything he had done. So 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.240 that's why I look at him be like, y'all just 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.040 don't understand man. And then at that time too, you know, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.000 he recognized as a young man that I got to 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.840 make sacrifices to be great. He had already started dying 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.000 yet stop hanging out. He was doing so much at 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.920 a young age to make sure that he played at 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.880 the level. Man, he just had it, you know. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.640 It was his knowledge before like people was like, what 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.520 Shawn do? What he wants to do? And part of 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.520 it was not that he really wanted to do what 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.040 he wanted to do. He had the ability to do 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.440 things that others couldn't do. So he could almost show 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.080 at the line of scrimmage and still be over top 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.960 like we in covered too, and Sean is like standing 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.800 by like at will backer. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:49.840 I'm like, yo, man, get back right, I've got this 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.280 receiver regard. You try to get the jamp but you 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.240 susted on. So that's one thing. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:59.720 But I think what happened really was he started to 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.800 really understand when he started to understand the game. But 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.520 it was really more so that like he really understood 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.280 his abilities, you know, his abilities right, like he before 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.439 he was making plays and stuff like that, but when 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.960 he started under the game and matching up with his 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.640 abilities and things that he could do. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:17.720 He became unstopper. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.040 Because I played with Pro Bowl guys, I play a 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.200 young like and I tell people all this all the time, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.000 a young Sean. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.400 Another guy played. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.800 At Miami that was really good, who was very similar 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.800 to Sean was a guy named Benny Blade. And if 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.079 people know, like Benny was amazing, right, and he was 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.280 still amazing tenth twelfth year in the league when I 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.040 had a chance to play with him and Daryl Williams. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.480 But Sean, he was on that level of like if 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.000 you think about the potential of safeties, and ed Reed 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:51.600 comes first to mind, you know, Troy Sean, you know, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.000 and I and you don't like to say this, but 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:55.719 I think he could have been the best safety ever 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:56.120 at all. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.760 That's how I feel. That's how I feel. And I 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.480 played with him, I sat beside him for five years. Yeah. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.840 Man, no, man, all right, man, man, just man, damn, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.959 I missed miss We got cheated, man. But you know, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.120 and shout out to the statue being that they're gonna 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.800 put it. Yeah, just we feel like we need great, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.720 great gesture that the team is gonna do by putting 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.199 the statue for him that truly he just truly deserves 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.360 that it's. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.480 Time to switch gears. Man. The initial fifty three man 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.880 roster has been Uh, we're gonna do something called set 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.959 the tone. We called set the Tone. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.120 Brought to you by Johnson Kendall Johnson, the official insurance 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:39.080 broker and risk management partner of the Washington Commanders. Where 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.360 our passion is your protection. Who do y'all think needs 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.200 to set the tone for this season? 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:46.080 This year? 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.360 For me Man and I might take the shine on 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.320 and I want to jump out there before London because 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.400 I know London probably feel the same way about this guy. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.959 I think Frankie Levu is a superstar, you know, and 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.520 our lineback and or has been tremendously upgraded. But for 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.040 some reason, the first time I saw Frankie Levu, I 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.880 was like, what, Like, this guy is a predator out 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.240 there and he's a superstar on a defense side of 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.400 the ball. And way the reason why I said he 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.760 could possibly set the tone because if you think about 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.920 Dan Quinn, you think about Dallas, you think about Michael Parsons, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.480 I think Frank Frankie Levu has that he got something 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.520 about him that he could be just dynamic in the 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.360 blitzing coverage hit Fred Warner come to mind in London. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.200 You can probably speak on a little more, but I 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.280 think that kid could be a superstar on that defense. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.760 I'm gonna go against the grain from what we probably 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.160 look at offensively and we might say, okay, you got 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.319 the quarterback that you know what I mean, he can 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.520 do so much with his legs and with his arm. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.319 Then you have a guy like Terry who I can 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.800 easy throw out there. I'm gonna say b Rob. I 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:56.400 think b Robb last year with the carries and people 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.200 fail to realize you. You know, you look at Cliff 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.160 and his out of play, you think past, past, past, 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.719 but go back and watch history, look at history. When 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.640 it comes to Cliff. His run game has has always 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.280 been up there too, you know, the best of the league, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.040 you know, when he was out there doing this thing 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.559 in Arizona. So I think b Rob is going to 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.560 be a surprise to a lot of folks thinking that 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.200 hey it's all about just you know, spread out offense 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.360 or whatever. He's going to be able to set the 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.320 tone and slow things down for a young you know 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.719 quarterback that we have that now he can go out 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.040 there and be that guy and see the guys and 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.280 see those lanes you know a little much clear because 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.520 we have the run game, you know behind b Robb Blake. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.240 So piggyback it off of you with with the b 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.560 Rob standpoint in order for be Rob to do his thing, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:41.960 need that old. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:42.560 Lined to do that. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:43.679 You got to do that thing. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.280 And one person in particularly that I feel like it 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:47.600 is going to have to set the tone. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.640 Sam Cosmy Sam Costan. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:57.920 He's a last year he balled manna play play. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.720 He finally got settled in it till his home. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:04.520 I think the best position at right guard, physical tone 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.720 cetter man. He's Sam in a in a year where 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:12.240 the offensive line didn't didn't play play up to. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.880 The expectations so to speak. Sam did. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.440 He was a bright spot on that offensive line. He 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.560 played out standing football. And I think even this year 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.079 with him being in the guard position for a second 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.040 year in a row on a new coaching staff with 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.280 a greater emphasis on running the football, Sam with his 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:35.199 athleticism and its temperament, he's a tone center because at 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.240 offensive lineman it is one thing that has skill and 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.320 technique and all that you have skilled technique and a 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.720 nasty temperament and demeanor which he has. You have the 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.679 ability to set the tone. And that's that's. Uh, He's 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.640 gonna be my my tone. Cetter the fifty three man roster. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.000 Any any surprises to you as any you know, like okay, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.720 things you like? Well, Driscoll keeping the third quarter quarterback, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.520 I think you alluded to about you know, like man 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.760 because now teams are looking maybe put the third guy 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.640 on practice squad something like that. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.439 But uh, I think it was maybe it was the 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:20.800 fifty yard run. He was rolling, but he's looking like 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.920 somebody please please. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.880 But you know, in the modern day football, you know, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.520 you know, usually you just think about the first and 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.560 the second guy and the third guys like I picked 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.520 somebody off the street or somebody you know, uh that 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.000 may be available. But uh, I think that that kid 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.600 that that was like all right, they keeping a quarterback. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.720 That that was kind of a like that's interesting. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.320 And then another thing I was thinking about this and 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.760 how many dbs on him about you can. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.560 Talk about about that, but that was like one of 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:53.960 those things. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.920 I mean, it's all the safety. I mean that's my 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.320 that's my wow, that's my surprise. Just so many safety 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.560 But when you think about it, when you really think 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.360 about it as a whole and understand what this defense 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.120 is about packages, and then you're saying to yourself, yeah, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.480 we might have eleven that we say, you know, I 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.360 guess you can say named as safeties, but it's really twelve. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.600 When you have one of the guys playing linebacker's he's 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.400 slaughtered as a linebacker, and you just understand the packages. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.560 And when you watch what dan Quid did defensively in 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.560 all the spots he'd been in, he was one of 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.720 those guys and showed different looks and you had guys 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.960 that fit the mold. So when you have that, it's 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.360 a great thing to have, you know what I mean. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:31.800 You can't look at it and say, well, man, why 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.200 we got so many? Say does you look at it 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.440 and say, I'm happy to see that we have so 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.440 much you know, flexibility in that position that we can 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.880 have that many guys and use them in different spots. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.720 London, you mentioned the new kickoff rolls and because it's 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.120 closer to the type of bodies. Yeah, right, So normally 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.080 that the bodies would have been like tight end linebacker 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.400 type guys, women in offensive lineman. But we're being close. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.800 I was like, that's interesting. Maybe the special teams just 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:02.680 dictating like we got to have more of those bigger dbs, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.840 but faster because the game is playing in space, right 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.120 And understand this, at the time that we're recording this, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.960 the fifty three man roster could be adjusted by the 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.080 time you all see this, so there could be some 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.480 changes that take place and things like that. But I 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.800 will say this, and and Dan Quinn has touched on this, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.280 and I'm sure if we if you talked to Larry Izzo, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:24.480 a special. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:25.000 Teams coach. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.880 For the last few years, the kickoff coverage and the 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:34.280 kickoff return teams, really that special teams element really wasn't 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.200 there anymore. There used to be guys who made football 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.280 teams based on their ability to cover kicks. You remember 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.000 named Roy Office Roy Yeah, yeah, I was scared of him. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.640 Roy Man's a dude that used to play for the 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.360 Carolina Pathos. He was a special tam sush teams team. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.280 And then then the Ravens had the boy that played 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.680 that won All O J. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.240 Shoot, he was my teammates too. Now, O J. Bergantz 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:03.200 was Special Teams. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.800 Yeah, we had a guy here who played and end 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:11.080 up end up playing lineback up for Buffalo one man game. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:16.159 Yeah, shout out to my boy Slater. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:20.040 Uh, Matthew Slater man like that kid made a career 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.680 on Special Man his dad a couple of years ago. 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:23.760 It could be coming back to your point, right. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.040 But but when you look at that element, you're gonna 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.760 have to have more athletic guys, bigger bodies, guys who 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.879 can cover kicks, and guys who are blocking and the 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.560 kick offf return. As I looked at this roster, I'm 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.760 always intrigued to see how many undrafted guys are able 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.720 to make the team, or even a guy like you 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.879 mentioned Jeff Drisco or a guy like Jeremy McNichols, guys 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.520 who initially when you when you come into this look 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.080 at the ross as it's being put together, or the 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.440 ninety man roster, like these guys are kind of afterthoughts, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.920 so speed not in their minds, and you know, because 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.679 and they proved it, but you know, not a lot 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.280 of fan fear and they earned their will to just 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.320 learned it. But a guy undrafted free agent Tyler Owens, Yeah, 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:10.840 man plays and. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.080 Every single time he got opportunity. 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.840 To make plays as a defensive player, but also as 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.399 a special team to tell her kicks and then Coason 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.760 Yankova as a fourth tight end. 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.440 So you know, taking advantage of your opportunity. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.159 Yes, And it's interesting now because now that you can 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.520 put veters on a play on a on a practice squad, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.240 it's interesting to see how teams are deciding who are 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.800 you gonna put on a practice squad? Am I gonna 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.359 let this guy hit that market? Because to your point, 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.960 I mean, Orange making the team, I mean was like 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.360 you would have thought, like, now he's a camp body, right, 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:49.400 Like he's gonna just. 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.520 Cover a couple of kicks. Man, that kid was. 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.880 He was out there dominating after that, like every single 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.040 time he got out on the field. 0:18:58.840 --> 0:18:59.800 A play was made. 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:05.280 Tanna wire receivers, Man, you look at the initial guys 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:06.359 who made the wide receiver. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.600 What are your thoughts on that position group? After the 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.280 big news, after the big news of the week. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.960 Well, well, yeahs, we can. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.920 Start with the news. We can start with the news. 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:17.800 I was wild. I was a little floored by it 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.119 because you look at the potential there. One of the 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.359 things I know about this game, man, the ability to 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.280 be you know, a lot of guys have ability. You know, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:26.960 you can see it. So many guys be on the 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:28.720 practice feel you be like, man, he's talding that he 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.920 got this that. But if you're not putting it out 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.080 there consistently, especially in the floor of a game, then 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.080 we have no place for you. And that's what kind 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.480 of was some of the little whispers was around, like, look, man, 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.840 we know the guy can play, but we don't get 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.120 that energy from him all the time. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.480 Well, it was really about players. Sometimes it's about the 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:49.800 attitude or the type of. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.520 Attitude, that type of player the coach is looking for. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.480 I say this, and I've always been a big Jiha 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.560 Dodson fan. Me too, going all the way back to 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.040 his college days. I'm a big Ohio State fan. You 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.040 went to Ohio State and I can remember Johann just 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.439 destroying the fire State always go back, and so I 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.240 was a big fan of his. I'm sorry that I 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.920 hate to see that it didn't work out for him 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.240 in Washington, just because I was a big fan of 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:17.200 his and a. 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.160 Lot of times but Philly London. 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.159 Hey, man, that man got the best offer from you. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.760 At this point, in time, and Philly had the best offer. 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.240 You take the best offer. I look at it like this, everybody, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:32.119 every scheme is not for everybody, right, and whether I 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.280 look at myself like I came into the league as 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.520 a four to three inside linebacker, I couldn't have been 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.359 a three four linebacker three four inside linebacker initially in 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.480 my career. Eventually, as I got more season than became 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:46.720 later on in my career, I was able to play 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:48.520 in the three four defense, and I did that on 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.520 under Jen has lit in this defense and playing in 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:54.560 front with sometimes. 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:56.640 Yeah, but it's just different. It's different. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.600 So with Johann maybe the things that they wanted him 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.600 to do at the wide receiver position, his skill set 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.560 may not have fit as much as the guys stay 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.000 opted to keep. So it's not necessarily it's a detriment 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:15.320 or a criticism or what he did. It might be 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.520 a testament to what the other guys did. So I 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:21.439 can look at it like this. Ros Philly is a 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.639 team that has Super Bowl aspirations. They like his skills 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:26.920 had enough to today say hey we can utilize some 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:28.200 put him in there. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.960 He's by far a plus to anything they had in 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.119 the slot. Every day, I've seen over there, so you know, 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:34.720 and not to cut you off, but just to get 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.200 back on the office. You know those wide receivers. Yeah, 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.000 you you you hit it on the head. You know, 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.960 maybe it don't fit here, but I understand what you're 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.040 coming from saying Philly, but you have think about it 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.080 two from two aspects. Say we keep them and you 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:48.560 still can't pay him next year. 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:54.159 If Philly's offered me a third and Cleveland's offered me 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.760 a sixth, you tek him to send him to Cleveland 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.280 because Cleveland, let's say clevean off for four. Am I 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.719 gonna sit him to Cleveland for this fourth? Or am 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:05.040 I gonna take Philly's third? 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.840 I'm getting a third? So it's like and you have 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.200 to be confident knowing that, hey, yeah we put him 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:11.960 over there. We want to see him twice a. 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.960 Yeah, you know he'll be We all get motive, everybody 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:18.240 that's just to nature this baseness. 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:20.840 But speaking of that core, I'm pleased with it. You know, 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.160 I'm not. I've never been the guy that got caught 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:27.720 up on names. Now what I love to see more firepower? Yeah, 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:29.800 but I think man, Also, you know a lot of 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:33.080 that stuff stems from you know what the offense allow 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:34.720 you to be, you know what I mean. We saw 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.800 Christian Kirk in his offense in Arizona, you know what 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:39.880 I mean, and he was like whoa, and you see 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:42.159 what he did, went and got paid. So you know, 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.640 same way with Terry. When Terry came here some years ago, 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:47.880 what six years ago, he was a third round pick. 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:49.560 We never knew Terry was gonna be Terry, but he 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:52.120 got that because of the ability of having the opportunity. 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:55.000 He was available and then he had opportunity. So now 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:57.560 that's gonna be these next guys. You know, you get 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:00.240 your you get your Diammie Brown, you get the guy 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:04.399 I can't think of his name. A lot of that 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:06.639 is the kids, the kids, the kids, you get all 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:09.200 these guys now that have the chance to step into 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:12.440 that molde of saying, hey, McCaffrey, you know, young guy. 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:13.840 You know what I mean, he's a young guy. But 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.400 now they have the opportunity to go out there and 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:18.480 make do with this, you know, you know, with their 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:20.960 their ability and his opportunity. So I'm just looking forward 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:23.080 to these guys going, you know, having a great year. 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.920 I'm not big on size because I hear everybody, that's 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:26.520 all you hear. 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:27.920 Ring on size. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:33.720 Yeah, of course, because a couplet five five on a 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.320 good day went out there and and ran circles round 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.000 the best of them. So of course you're right. But 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:41.240 I feel like we have those kind of guys there. 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:45.240 You know, Jameson crowded shout out to yo GM him 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.119 and Pringle crowded and Pringle hats off to you. 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:48.640 Yeah. 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:53.159 Man, just thinking about another defensive blue. Let's think about this. 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:54.919 Let's we need I think we need to touch on 0:23:55.000 --> 0:24:00.800 this the defense in general. We haven't seen this projected 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:04.679 starters play in a game together. You know, Duran and 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:06.800 Jonathan neither one of them played in any of the 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:12.919 preseason games, or Bobby Wagner defensively, what do you think 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:14.199 this defense is gonna look like? 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:16.280 Exciting? 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:20.840 For one reason, I love the way those guys ran 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:26.000 to the ball. And you're right, the starters that made 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:29.040 it got the reps in practice and the joint practices, 0:24:29.520 --> 0:24:33.879 but the backups were just running to the ball. Everybody 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:37.960 was around the ball, and it looked like and it's 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:40.199 not a knock on last year and the staff what 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.400 they did last year, but it felt like this defense 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:47.200 under Joe went everybody, whether you're the first or third 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:50.159 or second team, I mean second or thirdeen, you were 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:52.320 all on the same page. You communicated, you move well. 0:24:52.560 --> 0:24:55.320 You know, London, we talked about a defense like, ain't 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:58.120 no real big gaps here. It was a few times 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:01.040 where teams may plays whatever, for the most part, they 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:03.879 play well together at every level. So I think the 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:06.280 defense is gonna be exciting. And you talk and talk 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:10.399 about one reason is Joe Witch's attitude and what he 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:14.520 brings down. Another thing man is bringing in Bobby wagoning 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:18.760 with it. You know, people don't give that London. You 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:20.480 came in year what nine here. 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:25.560 Was going to season people closer and closer similar to 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:27.399 look like Bobby, but the similar to Bobby. 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:31.600 But people don't understand how important that is for you 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:33.679 have that type of leadership in the middle of your 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:34.959 field to get people lined up. 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:41.640 Absolutely, that is not like talk about it. You don't know. 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:45.560 You have to be able to set the defense. Yes, 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:50.239 and you so from your office perspective as soon as 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:51.679 you come out, as soon as y'all come out of 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:53.639 the field, off the out of the huddle, and a 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:56.239 lot of time teams don't even huddle. Now me as 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:59.600 a middle linebacker, I have to be able to see everything, 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:03.479 everything in order. The reason being, I gotta set the 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:07.560 front to your formation and who's the who's this still 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:10.040 tight end? Whereas the pass if we got to blitz 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:12.479 that set off the passing strip. We got a pressure 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:14.520 to set off the week the weakness up the week 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:18.320 passing strength, so I mean weakness, uh, things like that. 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:21.720 All those things you have to be able to process 0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:26.639 and process quickly. Because Sean is a corner, I'm relying 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:28.960 on London to make a ram call so that I 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:30.840 don't have to take on to be rock well, not 0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:34.400 only you gotta you gotta you want to get outside 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:37.560 and get set and look at the formation. Now he 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:40.320 can go through his process of okay, this is the formation, 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:43.520 here's an alignments this alignment this so the. 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:45.600 Quicker you can make that call out. 0:26:46.040 --> 0:26:50.160 It allows everybody to play faster and play more, play better. 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:54.760 So having a guy like Bobby Wagner, who's my season 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:57.719 and they still can play so a lot of times 0:26:57.880 --> 0:27:01.119 I feel like, you know, we talk about the experience piece, 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:05.240 and he's a tremendous uh experienced player, but he's also 0:27:05.359 --> 0:27:08.159 still can make play make plays. He let league and 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:11.000 tackles last year. Yeah, hell let league and tackles still 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:13.640 can make plays. I'm looking forward to seeing what those 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:16.840 guys do. I think the standard that Joe West had, 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:19.480 Joe Jr. Has those guys playing that practice in that 0:27:19.720 --> 0:27:22.800 like he tell you, man, they safe for everybody. 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:25.040 And I'm happy you have that kind of standard because 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:28.199 you know, you understand, playing a long time here or 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:30.439 just in the league alone, you know you don't like 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:33.520 those teams where Phil has that country club by, you know, 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:37.800 where everybody just happy and everybody feels safe. No, got 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:40.040 you gotta fear that your job is on the line 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:42.119 every time you step between those white lines on the 0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:45.119 practice field. That's how I took on practice, whether we 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:48.560 had them kind of coaches around or not. And luckily, unfortunately, 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:51.360 I've always had I guess you could say probably one 0:27:51.440 --> 0:27:54.040 year that I didn't have a coach that put that 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:55.679 kind of fear in his players, and that was my 0:27:55.760 --> 0:27:58.399 last year here, you know, understand, So so I've always 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:01.119 had Gibbs was like that, Shannon Hans was like that, 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:03.760 you have those coaches that, man, look, we're not taking 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:06.360 you coming out here. Lack of day zuku in practice 0:28:06.520 --> 0:28:08.439 or not showing up and being the guy that we 0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:11.159 expect to be you to be on Sunday. So I 0:28:11.240 --> 0:28:14.280 love that temperament from my staff alone, because I feel 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:16.720 like that's going to create the kind of chaos that 0:28:16.760 --> 0:28:20.280 they're trying to build within. 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This 0:29:40.200 --> 0:29:42.680 is an ice cold player brought to you by Pepsi, 0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:45.600 the official soft drink of the Washington Commanders, and we 0:29:45.640 --> 0:29:49.480 are blessed to be joined on the Players Club bah 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:55.000 perenial Pro Bowl tackle, eight year veteran former first round 0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:57.400 draft pick, Jonathan Allen. 0:29:57.800 --> 0:29:58.880 Thank you, Thank you, Jay. 0:29:58.920 --> 0:30:00.480 We appreciate you joining this man. 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:04.640 I appreciate you guys having me Aspir's finest man. Yeah yeah, 0:30:04.720 --> 0:30:10.160 yeah right, you're right. JA got a new head coach. 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:12.640 This is your third head coach that you've been in Washington. 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:15.680 What's it like playing under Dan Quinn? 0:30:16.120 --> 0:30:18.000 I love it, I love it. I mean it's been 0:30:18.000 --> 0:30:19.760 my favorite coach so far. And I think it said 0:30:19.800 --> 0:30:22.440 something when you got guys like Bobby Wagner going in 0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:24.480 the year thirteams who want to come and play here 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:27.440 because of coach Quinn in the atmosphere that he breathes 0:30:27.480 --> 0:30:29.480 like you guys see it, like the energy, how he 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:31.200 takes care of the players while pushing us. 0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:32.840 Man, there's nothing like it. 0:30:33.240 --> 0:30:35.080 Yeah, And when you get a new coach, you always 0:30:35.080 --> 0:30:37.719 feel like you got to prove yourself. And so what 0:30:37.920 --> 0:30:40.560 was it that you wanted to show the new staff 0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:42.680 what you brought to the table Because they knew about 0:30:42.720 --> 0:30:45.080 you right obviously, but what did you want them to 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:45.720 know about you? 0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:48.360 For me, the biggest thing that I wanted them to 0:30:48.560 --> 0:30:51.160 know about me is how hard I practice. I feel 0:30:51.160 --> 0:30:53.440 like I feel like everyone is going to play hard 0:30:53.640 --> 0:30:55.280 during the game. Come, I mean, that's just what we do. 0:30:55.760 --> 0:30:57.720 But I take a lot of pride in practice. And 0:30:57.760 --> 0:30:59.560 for me, I wanted to show them how tough I 0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:01.480 was on the practice field and how I don't like 0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:03.800 to miss time and really my work ethic, you know 0:31:03.800 --> 0:31:04.200 what I mean. 0:31:04.320 --> 0:31:06.120 So that was my biggest thing. 0:31:06.160 --> 0:31:08.800 Being that you've been through this before, you know, as 0:31:08.880 --> 0:31:11.239 London just you know, he alluded to this is your 0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:15.000 third head coach? Was it ever a time? And knowing 0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:17.120 that we finna get a new staff in here was 0:31:17.120 --> 0:31:20.600 it ever a time you saying how long is this 0:31:20.680 --> 0:31:22.360 going to take? You know what I mean? Am I 0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:24.120 going to get this staff that's going to come in 0:31:24.160 --> 0:31:25.520 and take me to where I'm trying to go on? 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:27.440 So I need to go elsewhere? Like, did you ever 0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:29.120 have any of those thoughts in your head saying, Man, 0:31:29.120 --> 0:31:30.760 I don't feel like I want to go through this 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:31.600 again here. 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:33.000 I'll be honest. That's how I felt at the end 0:31:33.040 --> 0:31:35.400 of the season last year. But after talking to mister 0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:37.720 Peters and coach Quinn, I knew that it was something 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:40.160 I wanted to be a part of. I just like 0:31:40.240 --> 0:31:42.640 the energy they brought out, like what they were saying. 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:44.200 And you know, I always said that I wasn't going 0:31:44.280 --> 0:31:46.360 to let the things that went on in the other 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:49.520 regime effect my decision about this one. And you know, 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:52.280 after OTS, I was like, win, loser, draw, this is 0:31:52.280 --> 0:31:53.800 something that I want to be a part of. I 0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:55.600 want to see it out. 0:31:55.960 --> 0:31:58.560 And it's Mitch just I'm glad you mentioned last season 0:31:58.600 --> 0:32:00.880 because we had you late in the season on the 0:32:00.880 --> 0:32:04.600 players Club and just looking you can see the frustration 0:32:04.920 --> 0:32:08.200 and that you were dealing with and seeing you and 0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:13.400 observing you this off season in training to cap in preseason. 0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:17.440 I can tell a different you, different energy, different vibe. 0:32:17.680 --> 0:32:20.040 You seem like you're in a better place, better space. 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:23.760 What did it take to get you there? I know 0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:26.800 you went through you know, talking to Dan Quinn, talking 0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:29.880 to Adam Peters, but it also you know some things 0:32:29.920 --> 0:32:31.680 you probably had to do. Is just like, Okay, let's 0:32:31.800 --> 0:32:33.840 really get to where I want to be and really 0:32:33.880 --> 0:32:34.400 embrace this. 0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:37.080 I know for me it's not about the wins and losses. 0:32:37.080 --> 0:32:38.480 And I feel like that's something that a lot of 0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:41.040 fans think that I'm just frustrated because we lose, which 0:32:41.080 --> 0:32:44.400 I am, but whening there losing the NFL, in my opinion, 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:46.200 comes down to five players a game, give or take. 0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:48.280 If they sing a different way, that's usually going to 0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:51.400 determine the game. For me, it's the process, and I 0:32:51.400 --> 0:32:52.680 mean the simple way I can put it. I just 0:32:52.720 --> 0:32:54.280 want to be around a bunch of dudes who love 0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:56.000 the game and want to play football the right way. 0:32:56.200 --> 0:32:58.880 If I can get that, hey, I can work with it. 0:32:59.000 --> 0:33:02.880 You played with Nick saban Man, but you want at 0:33:02.920 --> 0:33:03.520 every level. 0:33:03.560 --> 0:33:06.760 You won in high school, you won in college, and 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.360 I know that's been adjustment. That's adjustment in your mindset. 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:11.000 So you say it's not about winning, but you want 0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:11.320 to win. 0:33:11.240 --> 0:33:12.480 The Super one thousand percent. 0:33:12.520 --> 0:33:14.200 I definitely want to win, But before I can even 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:16.960 focus on winning, if we're not doing the little things 0:33:17.040 --> 0:33:20.000 right here every single day, I can't even focus on that. 0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:22.440 So I love what we're building here. I love the 0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:24.440 guys we brought in. I mean, obviously, when you have 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:27.920 a quarterback like Jayden Daniels really just gives everybody hope 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:30.040 and really gives you a chance because you know, without 0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:32.960 having that quarterback position figured out, you don't got a 0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:34.480 chance in this league in today's football. 0:33:34.560 --> 0:33:37.960 You spoke about Bobby being here. Now has his present 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:38.800 been felt already? 0:33:39.080 --> 0:33:39.480 For sure? 0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:41.040 I Mean when you look at a guy like Bobby, 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:44.200 who's usually one of the first people here, how hard 0:33:44.200 --> 0:33:46.760 he works, it really gives no excuse to anybody else. 0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:51.040 You got a new DC also, Joe widd Jr. 0:33:51.200 --> 0:33:54.120 This is his first year being a defensive coordinator, and 0:33:54.200 --> 0:33:57.000 when you interview him, when we talk to him, I'm 0:33:57.000 --> 0:34:00.040 looking like, man, why is it what took him so 0:34:00.680 --> 0:34:03.280 what took him so long to get a deep DC job? 0:34:04.400 --> 0:34:07.480 We know what it's like to, you know, to talk 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:10.360 to him outside of the meeting room. What's he like 0:34:10.400 --> 0:34:13.080 in the meeting rooms and also on the field? Good question, 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:13.799 all that. 0:34:14.080 --> 0:34:14.680 I love it. 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:15.279 I love it. 0:34:15.320 --> 0:34:17.560 You guys know, you can teach anybody exs and those 0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:19.960 that's not really hard. It just comes down to just 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:21.719 knowing the game of football. But when you got a 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:25.120 coach who you want to play hard for, who preaches, 0:34:25.160 --> 0:34:28.160 who lives what he preaches, and loves that physicality from 0:34:28.160 --> 0:34:30.359 the back all the way to the front, seven man, 0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:33.480 I love it. I just love him, and I'm I 0:34:33.520 --> 0:34:35.680 can't say how excited I am for Tampa bay Man, 0:34:35.719 --> 0:34:38.400 and if I don't, I don't like to guarantee a 0:34:38.400 --> 0:34:39.799 lot of things, but you're gonna like the way this 0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:41.920 defense looks. I can't say how we're going to perform 0:34:42.000 --> 0:34:44.120 because I don't like to make guarantees, but we're gonna 0:34:44.120 --> 0:34:44.400 go out there. 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:46.600 We're gonna play real quick, real quick. 0:34:46.680 --> 0:34:50.560 So earlier today I actually was talking to to Joe. 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:53.120 I ran into him in the hallway and I mentioned 0:34:53.160 --> 0:34:56.399 to him there was a play in the preseason game 0:34:56.440 --> 0:35:00.240 against New England where they ran I think a screen or. 0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:04.240 Something, and it was ten guys in the in the frame. 0:35:05.480 --> 0:35:08.000 Ten guys in the frame just around the football, and 0:35:08.040 --> 0:35:10.640 the eleven guy the only reason he wasn't in the frame, 0:35:10.719 --> 0:35:12.960 so just because he was a corner, you know, playing 0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:16.640 outside or whatever. That's what you're talking about and playing 0:35:16.680 --> 0:35:20.240 with that type of intensity and just go get. 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:22.960 I was gonna allude to that too, because that's noticeable. 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:25.719 Like I mean, you know, we watching preseasons, so it's 0:35:25.760 --> 0:35:27.960 hard to really get up for it and say everything 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:32.120 is vanilla. But the one thing that stands out, especially defensively, 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:34.640 everybody to the ball. I mean, you had young guys 0:35:34.640 --> 0:35:37.400 in there tackling like they was linebackers. And I'm sitting here, 0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:39.640 you know, I was joking with Fred. I'm like, Fred, yeah, 0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:46.759 you couldn't play very noticeable, bro, And that's something that 0:35:46.880 --> 0:35:49.000 you know. I'm a receiver and I understood what it 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:51.560 took to stop guys on a high level. And I 0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:53.200 used to I'm watching I'm gonna be real with you. 0:35:53.320 --> 0:35:55.440 I've said this all last year. I didn't like the 0:35:55.480 --> 0:35:58.680 way we played outside because no one was physical, Nobody 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:02.000 bumping on it, nobody putting hands, nobody. And instantly you 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:04.759 see that already, so you know that's that jumps off 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:07.200 the screen. You just spoke about it. We're gonna like 0:36:07.239 --> 0:36:08.799 what we see. I can't wait to see. I can't 0:36:08.800 --> 0:36:10.480 wait to see it in a real game, you know 0:36:10.480 --> 0:36:10.719 what I mean. 0:36:10.800 --> 0:36:11.480 It's gonna be fun. 0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:11.600 Man. 0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:13.960 The standards of the standard and Coach Coin said the 0:36:14.000 --> 0:36:16.160 best places for anybody. 0:36:16.160 --> 0:36:17.160 But it's not for everybody. 0:36:17.239 --> 0:36:21.600 So what's next for Jonathan Allen Man, perennial pro bowler. 0:36:21.840 --> 0:36:23.600 How do you take your game? Which is year seven? 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:25.560 Right, you're going to year eight? 0:36:27.920 --> 0:36:33.359 Yeah, what what's next? How do you take your game? Here? 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:36.960 I think for me, the difference between great players and 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:42.719 average players just consistency. Great players have. Great players have 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.600 more great plays more consistently. And I don't think that's 0:36:45.640 --> 0:36:47.440 me going out there and search for players, but I 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:49.640 think that's me falling back on my training and doing 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:51.520 little things the right way, taking care of my body 0:36:51.560 --> 0:36:53.800 like I never have before, take care of my nutrition 0:36:54.239 --> 0:36:56.239 like I never have before, and just raising up my 0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:59.880 floor so my floor is high consistently. So if I 0:37:00.160 --> 0:37:01.560 do that, I think that's the difference between you know, 0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:03.440 good and great players. So I'm looking to be great 0:37:03.560 --> 0:37:04.320 more consistently. 0:37:04.400 --> 0:37:07.400 You're missing changing your nutrition and you shared that you 0:37:07.480 --> 0:37:09.719 hired a chef for the first time this year. You 0:37:09.760 --> 0:37:12.640 look lean even at you know, three hundred poles. I 0:37:12.640 --> 0:37:16.080 guess whatever you are, but you look lean at and 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:18.440 you can tell the difference. What was kind of the 0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:21.880 thought process behind, Hey, I want to I want to 0:37:22.440 --> 0:37:24.560 hire a chef, get in the best shape. I don't 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:26.160 know if this best shape you've ever been there, but 0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:29.920 just just maybe doing something different this offseason. 0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:30.960 What was the thought process? 0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:32.839 I saw a quote from Lebron James and I thought 0:37:32.880 --> 0:37:35.960 that was so interesting. He said, if you want to 0:37:35.960 --> 0:37:37.640 be great in your craft, you're going to have to 0:37:37.719 --> 0:37:38.839 sacrifice your loved ones. 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:40.080 You know what I mean. 0:37:40.640 --> 0:37:43.000 And that's a conversation of how my wife like, we're 0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:44.560 not gonna be able to spend as much time together, 0:37:44.920 --> 0:37:46.399 We're not gonna be able to go out on days 0:37:46.480 --> 0:37:48.080 like we like to. It's going to be a sacrifice 0:37:48.120 --> 0:37:51.040 between me and you and our relationship. You just have 0:37:51.080 --> 0:37:54.200 to understand why I'm doing it. So I saw that 0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:55.759 and that really hit home to me because I would 0:37:56.960 --> 0:37:59.680 I want to sacrifice my relationship as much as I 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:02.359 feel like I could have, and I think that's been 0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:04.400 a huge change for me. We don't go out anymore 0:38:05.040 --> 0:38:07.279 handing those at seven o'clock every night, I'm putting on 0:38:07.320 --> 0:38:09.560 my game ready, my normoutech got a two hour routine 0:38:09.600 --> 0:38:12.040 every single night going to bed. Can't go home and 0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:14.480 watch TV and spend the quality time that I know 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:15.200 that she likes. 0:38:15.200 --> 0:38:16.640 But and that's why I think it's. 0:38:16.520 --> 0:38:17.800 So important to have a great woman, you know what 0:38:17.840 --> 0:38:19.279 I mean that I don't have to do it on 0:38:19.320 --> 0:38:22.399 my own, but she has to understand if I want 0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:25.279 to take my game to the next level, it's I'm 0:38:25.320 --> 0:38:27.200 gonna have to sacrifice you. 0:38:27.200 --> 0:38:27.960 And she's cool with that. 0:38:28.239 --> 0:38:30.080 Yeah, we've all had we've all been on that road. 0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:33.960 I remember just talking to someone recently. Someone from my 0:38:34.160 --> 0:38:36.279 university reached out to me like, hey man, we want to, 0:38:36.680 --> 0:38:39.120 you know, collaborate with you on Instagram about the six 0:38:39.320 --> 0:38:41.800 six days until we play our game. And he was 0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:43.520 asking me some questions and I was like, that's one 0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:45.200 of the things that stood out to me in college 0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:48.400 that I took with myself, you know, pro wise. You know, 0:38:48.440 --> 0:38:50.799 I remember when I got hurt my first year and 0:38:51.280 --> 0:38:53.440 I was trying to get back to Tanner that was 0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:56.520 playing on that level collegiately in the pros, and the 0:38:56.560 --> 0:38:58.879 first thing I had to do was cut friends, cut 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:01.080 my eating habits, cut my hanging out having us. You know, 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:04.359 I knew that that got me through college. So when 0:39:04.360 --> 0:39:06.880 you speaking of it, it just resonated with me, because 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:10.359 that's what people fail to realize. Like if you take 0:39:10.520 --> 0:39:12.759 a little bit out. You know, Coach Coach Davis or 0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:15.720 Bush Davis used to always ask us how many slices 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.839 of pie you giving out your pie? See what I'm saying. 0:39:19.080 --> 0:39:21.160 If you say I got a piece for everybody and 0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:22.920 all these other things, then you don't have enough for 0:39:22.960 --> 0:39:25.759 yourself to be great. And that's you know that that 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:27.520 made me think about that. So that's the way to 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:29.680 go about it. Man. And I'm gonna be honest with you. 0:39:29.680 --> 0:39:31.960 But I've been watching you every year here throughout your 0:39:31.960 --> 0:39:32.680 whole career. 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:34.640 Here with us, and I've been watching them since high school. 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:37.560 Regardless. 0:39:36.120 --> 0:39:43.920 I watched this West Scale scrimmage real quick before we 0:39:44.000 --> 0:39:44.600 let John go. 0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:47.279 You gotta tells the story about what he showed up 0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:48.840 at your your camp. 0:39:48.600 --> 0:39:49.040 You hand. 0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:51.560 So you know, I through the Shawn Springs camp every year, 0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:54.560 and real good camp. It was all about giving it 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:56.800 back and it wasn't as many high schools was today 0:39:57.000 --> 0:40:00.880 and the aspern this community, and I'm looking on the sideline. 0:40:00.920 --> 0:40:03.560 I see a big old dude in the cut off shirt. 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:09.640 I'm like Mackey, coach, who's the new parent. He goes, Man, 0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:13.880 that's that's that's my uh my d tackle Jonathan Allen. 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:16.480 And when I said it was a tenth grader, right, 0:40:17.080 --> 0:40:18.959 he don't even remember he was about in tenth grade. 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:21.040 I said, hey, man, and I think Jonathan, if I'm 0:40:21.040 --> 0:40:24.000 not mistaken, he just came from like Alabama or somethingwhere 0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:24.359 like that. 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:25.520 He had moved up here. 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:28.520 And uh he was just a humble kid working the 0:40:28.520 --> 0:40:30.960 camp at the sleeves cut off the stone Bridge. And 0:40:31.160 --> 0:40:34.320 I remember watching him in scrimmage the very He'll remember 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:37.080 this play, man. I seen him like I think it 0:40:37.120 --> 0:40:40.200 was Westfield Centerville, like bull rusted center. Threw him down, 0:40:40.280 --> 0:40:43.040 hit the full back and slacked the quarterback. I was like, man, 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:44.160 he can start for us to do. 0:40:45.800 --> 0:40:49.719 He can start from you know what I'm talking about. 0:40:49.840 --> 0:40:55.200 Like that's a great way right here, man, joh We 0:40:55.360 --> 0:40:58.400 absolutely appreciate you being on this edition. 0:40:58.239 --> 0:40:59.080 Of the Players Club. 0:40:59.360 --> 0:41:01.480 We like to have all our guests side of football, Matt, 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:03.560 if you would side of this ball with my side 0:41:03.560 --> 0:41:03.960 of this ball. 0:41:03.960 --> 0:41:06.680 We greatly appreciate that offus. 0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:07.879 I appreciate you, guys. 0:41:07.920 --> 0:41:08.000 Man. 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:09.680 I used to come up here every year for y'all's 0:41:09.680 --> 0:41:12.680 training camp and be out in the stands, so it's 0:41:12.680 --> 0:41:14.120 always sur real for me being able to come here 0:41:14.160 --> 0:41:15.160 and talk to you, guys. 0:41:15.640 --> 0:41:17.120 I appreciate you. 0:41:17.280 --> 0:41:18.160 Ain't your best man. 0:41:23.239 --> 0:41:25.720 You're listening to the Players Club presented by Pepsi. 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:36.640 Pepsi zero Sugar has taken its flavor to the next level. 0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:39.279 A zero sugar cola has never tasted this good. 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This segment is called 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:20.480 Drive Time, presented by Eastern Automotive Group any car anyway 0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:25.120 for everyone since nineteen eighty eight, fellas what we got 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:28.520 to do to get off to a fast start this season. 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:33.840 You know what, I think, first and foremost, gotta protect 0:42:33.880 --> 0:42:39.239 the football. That's the first and foremost thing. Turnovers are 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:42.960 such a big indicator or determinate of who wins the 0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:46.560 football game. So protecting the football and being able to 0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:49.000 also convert on the flip side of that, take the 0:42:49.040 --> 0:42:52.200 ball away. We protected the football, winning and turnover battle, 0:42:52.480 --> 0:42:54.560 I think those are That's definitely one way we can 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:55.680 get off to a fast start. 0:42:56.280 --> 0:42:57.800 For me, it's play clean football. 0:42:58.040 --> 0:42:59.920 I think they did a good job in the preseason, 0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:06.000 not too many penalties or whatever in games. And one 0:43:06.120 --> 0:43:09.000 way you can lead to turnovers is you can get 0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:11.799 like a holding on offense, get backed up and then 0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:13.279 have a third long and you. 0:43:13.280 --> 0:43:15.920 Get a penalty. So for me, it's about play clean football. 0:43:16.000 --> 0:43:18.320 I don't know. Let's let's not jump off side. 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:21.600 Let's you know, there's no passing apperance, that's do all 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:24.600 the things. Let's not give the ball game away. Let's 0:43:24.800 --> 0:43:26.319 let's make opponents beat us. 0:43:26.440 --> 0:43:28.560 I think that go hand in hand. I think you know, 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:33.640 if you playing clean football, protecting the football. That allows 0:43:33.640 --> 0:43:37.040 you to now get yourself in position to score football, 0:43:37.080 --> 0:43:39.120 you know what I'm saying. So that's that's my number 0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:41.080 one thing. You know, when I was an offensive guy, 0:43:41.600 --> 0:43:43.920 uh playing each and every time we had a we 0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:45.759 had a driver is I wanted to get get in 0:43:45.800 --> 0:43:49.000 scoring drive, whether it's three or six, and were kicking 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:50.960 the extra field you know, I mean, I'm kicking an 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:53.480 extra point. You're trying to get points every time, you 0:43:53.719 --> 0:43:56.080 feel and it makes the world of a difference if 0:43:56.080 --> 0:44:00.600 you see yourself offensively having those opportunities, because now, regardless 0:44:00.600 --> 0:44:04.080 of what you know happens defensively, if you're scoring, you're 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:06.120 still giving yourself a chance, you know what I'm saying. 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:08.680 If you're not and that that next team get the 0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:11.280 ball in driving score, you're putting yourself that far behind 0:44:11.280 --> 0:44:11.719 the eight ball. 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:15.000 So, and what's what's the term is a fast start? 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:17.200 Are we talking at the first quarter of the season? 0:44:17.239 --> 0:44:19.799 Is two and two a fast start? Or three and 0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:22.000 one a fast start? Obviously we love to go four 0:44:22.000 --> 0:44:24.399 and oh right, you know we're talking like. 0:44:24.560 --> 0:44:28.040 I guess that's that's a very good point. That's a 0:44:28.080 --> 0:44:30.239 great point. What's what's the fast start? 0:44:30.840 --> 0:44:34.000 You know, let's say this the game against Tampa Bay. 0:44:34.400 --> 0:44:37.399 We haven't talked a whole lot about that. That's that's 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:39.879 gonna be a challenge going down there. But I love 0:44:39.920 --> 0:44:44.040 it though, because now you Tampa Bay very under the rated, 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:46.759 under the radar type of team. They were a playoff team, 0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:50.560 won a playoff game. One of the Detroit last last 0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:53.560 season had them as a one score game late now 0:44:53.760 --> 0:44:56.000 in the fourth quarter or in the fourth quarter of 0:44:56.000 --> 0:44:59.120 that ball game, you know Todd Bowles and that defense. 0:44:59.160 --> 0:45:02.200 We don't have to go in there protecting the football. 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:05.759 I think, Well, let's address the elephant in the room. 0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:06.800 Then to the fast start. 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:12.480 Then with a rookie quarterback, well let's address so let's address. 0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:14.560 It like you elefit of the role. 0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:22.520 I don't know, we've been messing around, but in order 0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:27.439 to we all know that the quarterback position and how 0:45:27.480 --> 0:45:31.080 they bring Jayden because because in the preseason he played 0:45:31.120 --> 0:45:33.680 and he looked when he was in there, and but 0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:36.879 that wasn't the you can't count that and that wasn't 0:45:37.160 --> 0:45:45.439 the full full. Uh, what's the arsenal of everything that leash? 0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:47.680 How much are you going to little faster I be, 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:51.359 how much you put on Jayden's plate the first game 0:45:51.520 --> 0:45:53.840 when it comes to the play calling and you know 0:45:54.000 --> 0:45:54.719 what you give him. 0:45:55.360 --> 0:45:59.480 Well, I was gonna talk about just when you mentioned 0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:02.320 far as record wise being a fast. 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:03.680 Start, but it's all coming down quarterback. 0:46:03.800 --> 0:46:06.200 It all comes to the quarterback. It all comes to them. 0:46:07.040 --> 0:46:11.360 Its playing as a unit a fast start. To me, 0:46:11.760 --> 0:46:14.880 that's gonna basically hear at both of what y'all questions, 0:46:15.239 --> 0:46:19.719 record wise and quarterback wise. It's how how much they 0:46:19.719 --> 0:46:22.480 look like a team out the gate. Yeah, because they're 0:46:22.480 --> 0:46:23.920 not a team until you go out there and you 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:25.359 play together, you know what I mean. Yeah, we could 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:26.879 come out and say we all the same any more. 0:46:27.200 --> 0:46:28.839 But when you know you have a team, it's when 0:46:28.880 --> 0:46:33.480 those guys are complimenting each other. You understand defensively, offensively, 0:46:33.520 --> 0:46:36.600 special teams. Everybody's out there putting each other in position 0:46:36.760 --> 0:46:40.919 to succeed. So to me, the fast start would be one, 0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:44.359 how well do they look like a group? You don't 0:46:44.360 --> 0:46:47.200 have to win to look good as a team. You 0:46:47.200 --> 0:46:49.040 can play good enough and say, man, they just lost 0:46:49.040 --> 0:46:50.440 it by a field goal, they just lost it by 0:46:50.760 --> 0:46:52.560 you know, whatever it may be. But to me, that 0:46:52.719 --> 0:46:55.680 will that will basically get that to what you're saying 0:46:55.880 --> 0:46:58.080 record wise, because if they look like a team early, 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:00.840 then they have the potential to have a better record, 0:47:00.840 --> 0:47:03.320 whether it's it starts early or leader you know what 0:47:03.360 --> 0:47:06.040 I mean. But you want them to look like what 0:47:06.080 --> 0:47:08.080 they're trying to be the culture that said, and you 0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:09.239 want to see that out the game. 0:47:09.320 --> 0:47:10.239 Yeah, absolutely. 0:47:10.719 --> 0:47:13.640 Now you you made the comment that the fast start 0:47:13.840 --> 0:47:15.480 and getting off to a fast start and winning all 0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:17.480 that it's all about the quarterback. 0:47:17.560 --> 0:47:18.320 I don't think it's. 0:47:18.200 --> 0:47:20.000 All about I don't really I don't think it's all 0:47:20.040 --> 0:47:21.000 about the quarterback. 0:47:21.480 --> 0:47:22.440 It's not. 0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:26.040 You don't have to put it, so go ahead. 0:47:26.800 --> 0:47:28.080 He's a major part of it. 0:47:28.080 --> 0:47:30.640 The quarterback is because the position, he's a major part 0:47:30.680 --> 0:47:34.120 of But if you think about this, there's so many 0:47:34.160 --> 0:47:36.520 other weapons that we have offen we got it. We 0:47:36.560 --> 0:47:39.439 got some backs that can run the rock. We got 0:47:39.480 --> 0:47:41.120 you you can get the ball out of his head quick. 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:43.799 We got some defense that they don't have to do 0:47:43.840 --> 0:47:45.399 their part. They don't have to make plays, they're don't 0:47:45.440 --> 0:47:49.600 have to take the football away. So the it's it's 0:47:49.680 --> 0:47:52.719 not all about the quarterback. All eyes will be on 0:47:52.840 --> 0:47:55.239 him because that's just the nature of the position. And 0:47:55.280 --> 0:47:58.359 he's the second overall pick, Heisman Trophy winner. Well, yeah, 0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:00.239 he don't have to play well, but he doesn't have 0:48:00.320 --> 0:48:03.080 to be the saving that's have to And I don't 0:48:03.080 --> 0:48:06.000 think I don't think you going to Tampa Bay in 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:09.360 that type of environment with with the Todd. 0:48:09.160 --> 0:48:13.160 Bows defense saying hey Jaden, you gotta you know, that's 0:48:13.160 --> 0:48:13.719 not what I'm saying. 0:48:13.760 --> 0:48:17.320 I'm saying in a different way London and Seawan Springs 0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:21.080 on defense, we know going into the game, a rookie 0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:24.840 quarterback is gonna have to beat us. That play calling 0:48:24.960 --> 0:48:27.360 edge going to be. I don't care how good Santana is. 0:48:28.200 --> 0:48:31.120 He could be all pro. But if I don't feel 0:48:31.160 --> 0:48:33.799 like Jayden can get him the ball accurately deep ball 0:48:33.920 --> 0:48:35.799 hit me in spots, I don't have no fear. So 0:48:36.400 --> 0:48:39.480 what I was saying, it's not all about the quarterback, 0:48:39.600 --> 0:48:42.600 but it is also everybody is going into the game 0:48:42.680 --> 0:48:44.520 Kennem rookie quarterback beat me, beat one. 0:48:44.520 --> 0:48:47.280 But with that being said, is what that rookie quarterback 0:48:47.280 --> 0:48:48.479 brings to the table as well. 0:48:48.600 --> 0:48:49.319 That's exactly so. 0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:54.680 With that being said, you can't also be in certain 0:48:54.719 --> 0:48:57.200 coverages knowing that he can be running up behind you, 0:48:57.280 --> 0:48:59.200 behind if you got your back turned to him, that 0:48:59.560 --> 0:49:03.640 that's what And just from what you saw, simple sized preseason, 0:49:04.040 --> 0:49:07.400 he's thrown it in him. So get your point. You 0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:10.600 one hundred percent right, But when you look at him, 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:13.200 you're gonna come in that game saying this is what 0:49:13.239 --> 0:49:15.520 I know about Jaden from what I saw in collage 0:49:15.520 --> 0:49:18.360 and what I don't know. 0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:20.360 I don't know, I don't know. Pros give him that 0:49:20.400 --> 0:49:23.480 respect the first week. First you fastart, I don't know 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:24.160 if we do, and. 0:49:24.320 --> 0:49:26.080 And and then you'll be that product that ball going 0:49:26.120 --> 0:49:28.040 behind you. You know what I'm. 0:49:27.880 --> 0:49:30.439 Saying, I will, I would, I would respect you because 0:49:30.440 --> 0:49:32.800 I'm saying I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sit on Santana. 0:49:32.880 --> 0:49:35.960 Yeah but you But but we're talking, we're Runnon and 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:37.160 Greg and we were. 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:39.520 Talking like, here's the here's the thing that we have. 0:49:41.000 --> 0:49:43.120 First and foremost, they don't know what the offense is 0:49:43.120 --> 0:49:46.680 gonna look like. They mean, it's the type of bay bucket. 0:49:46.920 --> 0:49:51.640 They haven't seen Washington, the Washington command, this true offense. 0:49:52.120 --> 0:49:53.440 They got some. They got some. 0:49:53.600 --> 0:49:58.040 They might they watch watch and all the stuff, But 0:49:58.040 --> 0:50:01.520 you gotta understand this. It's a mession of Arizona's offense 0:50:02.400 --> 0:50:05.319 athlete Lynn As the run game coordinator, what he brought from, 0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:09.040 what he's bringing to from San Francisco, and those elements 0:50:09.280 --> 0:50:12.960 Brian Johnson past game coordinated, what philosophies and things he'll 0:50:13.080 --> 0:50:15.279 he's bringing to him, you know. So there's a lot 0:50:15.320 --> 0:50:17.560 of different elements to this office. They they don't see 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:20.880 one thing that we know. We know who the Tampa 0:50:20.880 --> 0:50:24.400 Bay Buccaneers are. They're high pressure team. They blitch the 0:50:24.440 --> 0:50:27.000 third most out of anybody in the National Football Ball 0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:29.680 League from a percentage standpoint last week last year. 0:50:29.960 --> 0:50:33.400 So having a game plan that has answers. 0:50:32.880 --> 0:50:37.200 For those blitzes is what the game plan will, you know, 0:50:37.280 --> 0:50:38.719 be highly predicated on. 0:50:38.840 --> 0:50:40.720 And thank god they don't have shack and white. 0:50:41.280 --> 0:50:47.880 That's worrying. It is time for fan questions. Let's go, 0:50:48.000 --> 0:50:50.600 let's do this and let me kick it off. The 0:50:50.800 --> 0:50:54.400 Actress TV twenty personal question. 0:50:55.080 --> 0:50:57.799 When is the world? When in the world are they 0:50:57.920 --> 0:51:00.920 going to give you your gold jacket? I think she 0:51:01.000 --> 0:51:03.719 might be talking about London, but I will answer for myself. No, 0:51:03.920 --> 0:51:07.680 that was a personal questions. Here's a real question, serious questions. 0:51:08.000 --> 0:51:10.799 How do you feel about the linebacker corps and well, 0:51:10.920 --> 0:51:14.320 Jamin Davis breakout as an ad as an edge rusher. 0:51:14.640 --> 0:51:17.200 That's a great question. Yeah, I feel great about the 0:51:17.239 --> 0:51:19.680 linebacker corps. I look at the additions that they made. 0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:25.520 First and foremost, Frankie Louvu was the highest, the highest 0:51:25.560 --> 0:51:28.160 rated linebacker free agency. We were able to get him 0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:31.480 very underrated, playing in a small market like Carolina. He 0:51:31.600 --> 0:51:33.720 just didn't hear a lot about him. He's a baller, 0:51:33.719 --> 0:51:37.239 can do everything. Then Bobby Wagner, we know what he is. 0:51:37.520 --> 0:51:39.560 Speaking of gold jackets, he will have one of those. 0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:41.320 And the young guys. 0:51:41.680 --> 0:51:43.680 You know they drafted Jordan McGee. I know he's injury 0:51:43.760 --> 0:51:45.840 right now, but I thought I thought he's he was 0:51:45.880 --> 0:51:50.200 going to sail. But collectively, it's an entirely new lineback 0:51:50.239 --> 0:51:53.160 and Corps is looking at Jamin as a edge rusher, 0:51:53.320 --> 0:51:56.000 and as it speaks to Jamin, I think he's really 0:51:56.320 --> 0:51:58.520 developing as an edge rusher and be showing that he 0:51:58.520 --> 0:51:59.400 can play that position. 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:05.440 What's up? Next question? Fan question at Dominique Underscore O 0:52:05.760 --> 0:52:08.520 r S. I n I that because I don't know 0:52:09.400 --> 0:52:12.480 how to pronounce it. What player on this roster were 0:52:12.520 --> 0:52:15.839 you most like to have on yours? I guess they 0:52:15.840 --> 0:52:19.320 can say your team, and uh so, I don't know 0:52:19.360 --> 0:52:21.040 if it's a two question things. So I'm gonna answer 0:52:21.080 --> 0:52:23.960 that one first, which player on this roster? What I 0:52:24.000 --> 0:52:26.600 most likely have on my team? That's a good one, man, 0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:27.320 that's a good question. 0:52:27.840 --> 0:52:30.000 They try to ask, like, who you think is the 0:52:30.000 --> 0:52:32.000 best player that you want to say? What team were 0:52:32.000 --> 0:52:32.520 talking about? 0:52:34.320 --> 0:52:39.360 Yeah, one of my Washington teams. If I had to 0:52:39.400 --> 0:52:43.480 pick a guy, I would have loved the two guys. 0:52:43.680 --> 0:52:46.480 I would have loved the dran Payne type player, John 0:52:46.520 --> 0:52:49.000 day Adam type player, because I felt like we was missing. 0:52:48.680 --> 0:52:49.600 That we had big griff. 0:52:49.640 --> 0:52:51.480 We had big grip, but we was missing the Pro 0:52:51.560 --> 0:52:56.360 Bowl caliber griff remember you good he got hurt. Was 0:52:56.400 --> 0:52:58.880 missing that Pro Bowl rush talent. So I would have 0:52:58.920 --> 0:53:00.759 loved to have two guys like then, what you about 0:53:00.760 --> 0:53:01.120 you guys? 0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:03.160 For me, it's Jane Daniels. 0:53:03.920 --> 0:53:06.640 I think Jaden is a I mean he is a 0:53:07.800 --> 0:53:10.560 superstar potentially in the making. You saw Chris Collins work 0:53:10.640 --> 0:53:12.879 on Sunday Night said, hey man, this guy is a star. 0:53:13.440 --> 0:53:14.760 I think Jane is gonna be starting. 0:53:15.040 --> 0:53:17.239 Let me get let me, let me touch real quick. 0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:21.640 I would love to have seen you paired with Terry 0:53:21.960 --> 0:53:24.880 Terry Klain. I think y'all too with this dabbit. 0:53:24.960 --> 0:53:27.320 You're right, you absolutely right, I said, cook because you 0:53:27.360 --> 0:53:29.600 got a guy that's real gritty and Terry, Terry, just 0:53:29.600 --> 0:53:32.480 get it, get it done, no matter how. And I 0:53:32.520 --> 0:53:34.000 was like, you know, I was like a batterina out 0:53:34.000 --> 0:53:39.200 there on the field, man, right on my toes. Don't 0:53:39.320 --> 0:53:41.799 watch the light on my toes out there. 0:53:41.840 --> 0:53:45.160 Maybe laid on. 0:53:45.120 --> 0:53:46.960 My toes out there, man, watch me. 0:53:47.000 --> 0:53:48.080 Man, it was like a mosquito. 0:53:48.200 --> 0:53:51.080 I was. I was tip toe across. I was light 0:53:51.120 --> 0:53:54.880 on my toes. Hey, No, okay, next question, what player 0:53:54.960 --> 0:53:58.520 from your roster would most help this current squad? 0:53:58.960 --> 0:53:59.040 Me? 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:05.600 They need a covered corner like me, I would say, 0:54:07.360 --> 0:54:09.000 I like that Chris Samuels. 0:54:08.600 --> 0:54:10.799 Though, I would say your left tackle. Yeah. 0:54:11.880 --> 0:54:21.920 In a big addition, top yeah, man, I would blue 0:54:21.960 --> 0:54:24.920 definitely because he said you need a corner, need a corner? 0:54:26.880 --> 0:54:32.839 Man? Who else Sean Oh got they got safeties. They 0:54:32.880 --> 0:54:36.320 got safeties. That's left. I think we in the consistence 0:54:36.320 --> 0:54:40.160 may be the left tackle Trent or the left left 0:54:40.160 --> 0:54:45.799 tack Hey Tanner on this team. Yeah, think about it. 0:54:46.239 --> 0:54:50.320 They Yeah, you need you need more than one? Yeah? 0:54:50.400 --> 0:54:53.279 Yeah, so you got two ones? Yeah, you got him 0:54:53.320 --> 0:54:57.719 and Teri's two ones. Ballerida over here, Yeah, Ballerina all right, 0:54:57.760 --> 0:55:01.239 I got a questions for you. This is ye jab fifteen. 0:55:02.520 --> 0:55:06.279 Who besides Jaden are you? Who besides Jayden are your 0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:09.879 breakout starts to watch on offense and defense this year? 0:55:10.320 --> 0:55:15.120 For me, it has to be a Centistra Mike is 0:55:15.400 --> 0:55:18.680 a monster. That kid that's gonna play. Obviously, we saw 0:55:18.760 --> 0:55:21.239 him playing in a slot London. We talked, we were 0:55:21.239 --> 0:55:24.680 talking about this earlier. We saw him playing in the slot. 0:55:24.880 --> 0:55:27.839 But we think he has a footwork and potentially even 0:55:27.840 --> 0:55:30.440 play outside if need be. I think he's a he's 0:55:30.480 --> 0:55:32.520 an X factor, is a rookie, and I think he's 0:55:32.520 --> 0:55:33.640 gonna be He's gonna be good. 0:55:34.320 --> 0:55:37.359 Defensively, I would say Louver. I mean, don't get me wrong, 0:55:37.360 --> 0:55:39.000 wagon It's gonna be Wagoned. He's gonna be the guy. 0:55:39.040 --> 0:55:40.759 He's gonna be the QB or the defense. But I 0:55:40.880 --> 0:55:43.919 just I want to see that that kind of play 0:55:43.960 --> 0:55:46.080 from Louver level. And I don't know if I'm pronouncing 0:55:46.080 --> 0:55:49.960 his name right, you know, but Louvu love Louvu. He 0:55:50.080 --> 0:55:51.880 just one of those guys. He had that fact he 0:55:51.960 --> 0:55:53.879 had like you just look at him. Man, the way 0:55:53.880 --> 0:55:59.839 he lines up, you are jerseys back in the day. 0:56:00.080 --> 0:56:02.120 He was like one of those guys watching him in practice. 0:56:02.120 --> 0:56:03.520 So I can just imagine how he's going to be. 0:56:03.520 --> 0:56:05.680 And I watched them all last year, you know, playing 0:56:05.680 --> 0:56:08.200 in Carolina, so defensively. 0:56:07.800 --> 0:56:09.960 I would say him, what about your offense, guy, I'm 0:56:09.960 --> 0:56:13.319 gonna say mine for the last both y'all got offensive guy. 0:56:13.880 --> 0:56:16.080 I want to see, you know, and I might be 0:56:16.080 --> 0:56:18.400 a little biased because I played against his dad. I 0:56:18.440 --> 0:56:22.319 want to see if McCaffrey could develop into the third guy. Yeah, 0:56:22.320 --> 0:56:24.440 I want to see if he actually because because because 0:56:24.480 --> 0:56:27.439 the kids been playing with receiver two years, I thought 0:56:27.480 --> 0:56:30.680 he showed some spark in preseason. 0:56:30.880 --> 0:56:33.040 His pedigree with his family, you know. 0:56:33.320 --> 0:56:37.480 You know, so I would say him, and that might 0:56:37.480 --> 0:56:39.400 be a little bitter because I think Yai had a 0:56:39.400 --> 0:56:43.799 great preseason, but I would love to see McCaffrey like, 0:56:44.080 --> 0:56:45.360 I think he's gonna be a good player. 0:56:45.400 --> 0:56:45.600 Man. 0:56:46.280 --> 0:56:48.439 I'm gonna just keep it obvious, you know, I'm gonna 0:56:48.480 --> 0:56:51.200 go with Terry. I mean, we've seen Terry put up 0:56:51.239 --> 0:56:53.960 the number and take obvious what I'm. 0:56:53.800 --> 0:56:58.439 Saying, because because it's obvious that he's one of those 0:56:58.440 --> 0:56:59.520 guys that you can count on. 0:57:00.040 --> 0:57:01.799 But every year is a new year, and he got 0:57:01.880 --> 0:57:05.640 a new quarterback. So I want to see Terry. Terry 0:57:05.680 --> 0:57:08.359 hasn't been dynamic the way that we know he could 0:57:08.480 --> 0:57:12.560 be because of the said you understand now having this quarterback. 0:57:12.640 --> 0:57:13.960 If these guys get on track. 0:57:13.840 --> 0:57:15.839 He's still a rookie, He's still a rookie yet, right. 0:57:16.440 --> 0:57:19.520 This is the talent, the the his abilities that you 0:57:19.560 --> 0:57:21.200 know what, the way he can pass the ball, the 0:57:21.240 --> 0:57:23.400 way he can you know read right now, from what 0:57:23.440 --> 0:57:26.040 we saw some of the things just getting Terry the ball, 0:57:26.280 --> 0:57:28.680 he seemed to be a guy that knows how to 0:57:28.720 --> 0:57:31.400 get the guys that can help him out the ball 0:57:31.400 --> 0:57:33.840 in their hands, you know, fast and let them do 0:57:33.920 --> 0:57:35.240 what they got to do. So I just want to 0:57:35.240 --> 0:57:38.120 see Terry have a great start, you know, with the 0:57:38.240 --> 0:57:40.160 with a quarterback, because I think he will help the 0:57:40.240 --> 0:57:42.720 quarterback tremendously if he can get out there and show 0:57:42.800 --> 0:57:44.800 him like, look, men, I'm open s throw me the ball. 0:57:44.680 --> 0:57:50.440 You know, yeah, I'm so Offensively, my breakout star is 0:57:50.480 --> 0:57:55.600 be rob rob Robinson Jr. I think him in this 0:57:55.720 --> 0:58:00.000 offense was his ability or greater emphasis first and foremost 0:58:00.160 --> 0:58:03.080 on running the ball, he's gonna he's gonna put up 0:58:03.160 --> 0:58:05.840 turn up yards. He should have over a thousand yards rushing. 0:58:06.440 --> 0:58:10.120 But also his skills set in catching the football. He 0:58:10.240 --> 0:58:13.480 had natural hands catching the football. And I'm sure they'll 0:58:13.480 --> 0:58:15.760 figure out ways to get him involved in the passing game. 0:58:15.840 --> 0:58:18.280 So when you can buy those two things together, him 0:58:18.320 --> 0:58:20.200 being able to catch the ball out of the backfield 0:58:20.720 --> 0:58:22.280 great inferences on running the ball. 0:58:22.720 --> 0:58:25.400 He's going to be a breakout star in this league. 0:58:25.400 --> 0:58:28.080 And if you play fantasy football, I know a lot 0:58:28.160 --> 0:58:30.480 of teams that a lot of people are drafting players 0:58:30.480 --> 0:58:33.120 you want to I think you want draft well, I'm 0:58:33.160 --> 0:58:35.400 thinking about the fantasy But he is gonna split those 0:58:35.440 --> 0:58:38.120 touches with Eler on the third down, right because you 0:58:38.200 --> 0:58:42.840 never was clearly brought here for the down package change. 0:58:42.920 --> 0:58:46.880 But and then so that that's my offensive guy. Defensively, 0:58:47.560 --> 0:58:52.360 I'm gonna go with Dorance Armstrong. Yeah, like he produced 0:58:52.760 --> 0:58:55.840 in a limited role with the Cowboys last year. Ye 0:58:56.240 --> 0:58:59.120 as a pass rusher, could go inside, could play outside. 0:58:59.320 --> 0:59:00.440 It's defensive man. 0:59:00.680 --> 0:59:03.520 He's going to play a lot more snaps here. Whether 0:59:03.520 --> 0:59:05.440 it's I don't know what the percent is gonna be. 0:59:05.840 --> 0:59:08.040 Imagine at least sixty percent of the place he can 0:59:08.120 --> 0:59:11.960 be on the field. With more snaps, he'll he'll get 0:59:12.000 --> 0:59:16.280 more productivity out of him and offenses, if you think 0:59:16.280 --> 0:59:18.640 about it, they're gonna be first and foremost. Hey, we 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:22.160 gotta get it. We gotta get Deron and Jonathan Block. 0:59:22.520 --> 0:59:24.840 Got to make sure we get these guy So he'll 0:59:24.880 --> 0:59:27.520 be getting a lot of one on one something like that. 0:59:28.600 --> 0:59:31.800 So I'm thinking and thinking that he can have a 0:59:31.800 --> 0:59:35.680 breakout season because with more playing time and the guys 0:59:35.720 --> 0:59:39.200 he'll be playing with the loan that defensive front. Let 0:59:39.200 --> 0:59:43.760 me ask you thinking about in that same line, So, uh, 0:59:44.080 --> 0:59:47.840 jar Man, he's playing d n now, right, he's an 0:59:47.920 --> 0:59:50.920 edge rush jam I'm sorry, Jamie's playing ed rusher now. 0:59:52.360 --> 0:59:54.600 So we gotta look at him as it's a new 0:59:55.320 --> 0:59:58.800 new breakout guy. Could he be a breakout guy? I 0:59:58.800 --> 0:59:59.440 don't know if he was. 0:59:59.720 --> 1:00:04.080 I don't a few standpoint how many yeah, how many snaps? 1:00:04.120 --> 1:00:04.520 So how many? 1:00:04.960 --> 1:00:07.760 Now he could be could be that guy like like 1:00:07.920 --> 1:00:10.200 the Cowboys had last year when they used to bring 1:00:10.280 --> 1:00:13.200 in Fouler and he got the spark he said, that's 1:00:13.200 --> 1:00:15.400 the defense at times. He could bring that kind of 1:00:15.400 --> 1:00:17.919 spark to the defense. Just knowing that he probably gonna 1:00:17.920 --> 1:00:19.600 be subbed in at times when we need to play, 1:00:19.840 --> 1:00:21.320 need somebody to come out, you know, come off the 1:00:21.440 --> 1:00:22.880 edge for a little faster or whatever, because I think 1:00:22.920 --> 1:00:25.360 he brings that to the team more than anything. You know, 1:00:25.440 --> 1:00:27.360 he might not, he might be rusty or I can't 1:00:27.360 --> 1:00:29.880 even say rusty. He might be what she called it 1:00:30.000 --> 1:00:33.640 raw raw at that position. But I think with just 1:00:33.720 --> 1:00:36.479 his ability to play fast, it's gonna be a shock 1:00:36.600 --> 1:00:39.960 to I might want some teams tackle that. Oh man, 1:00:40.000 --> 1:00:41.960 I want. I won't ready for this. And now he 1:00:42.040 --> 1:00:43.760 gets he gets into a rhythm and gets into a 1:00:43.800 --> 1:00:45.560 groove and you know, have a good season doing it. 1:00:45.800 --> 1:00:49.080 Yeah, well, fellas man, this has been fun. First edition 1:00:49.760 --> 1:00:54.919 of the third season of the Players Club. 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