Speaker 1: It's finally here a week one, which means we were
Speaker 1: talking to head coach Dan Quinn about all things.
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and then after that we.
Speaker 1: Talked must watch matchups and a ticket to victory out
Speaker 1: on Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: Oh that Moore on the game plan. Welcome in command,
Speaker 2: his family to the game plan.
Speaker 1: My name is Brian Corwoo Junior here with the legend
Speaker 1: logan Paulson and our fearless leader, head coach Dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: Coach. Good to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good to be here with you, man, and it's
Speaker 3: a cool show and glad to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, So before we get started on Tampa Bay, yep,
Speaker 1: you resigned Sam? Cos me what goes into that decision making,
Speaker 1: especially right before week one?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Man, that awesome And it was really cool to
Speaker 3: see him and his family here today and think Sam represents,
Speaker 3: you know, what we want a commander to be. And
Speaker 3: he's strong, he's tough, he's a great teammate and so
Speaker 3: to know that he'll be right inside uh for years
Speaker 3: to come, that's an excellent feeling for a head coach.
Speaker 1: What a way to set the tone headed into week one.
Speaker 1: So let's get right into it. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: or a playoff team a great test for this new
Speaker 1: look team.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling about Tampa Bay?
Speaker 3: Yeah it is You're right. This is what a matchup, man.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a hell of a battle.
Speaker 3: Therese gonna be two tough teams that are gonna have
Speaker 3: to absolutely fight for it. And that's what I love
Speaker 3: about it. Their head coach former alumni not this week,
Speaker 3: Todd Bowles, not the alumni this week, but he's a
Speaker 3: really good coach. And they've had a good run, you
Speaker 3: know in Tampa, you know over the last you know,
Speaker 3: four years or so. They play aggressively. Defensively, they've been
Speaker 3: stout against the run. They've got a really good blitz
Speaker 3: package that's kind of what they've been known for. And
Speaker 3: then offensively, they've got some playmakers, you know, specifically outside receiver.
Speaker 3: They have it at running back, quarterback you know, can
Speaker 3: make plays outside the pocket. And so that's why this
Speaker 3: is going to be a hell of a fight, man.
Speaker 3: And it's like one that we're really looking forward to.
Speaker 3: Hot down there might get some weather and so all
Speaker 3: the elements that combine into like a hell of a
Speaker 3: fight and that's what we're expecting, and we certainly see that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting because like Todd Bowles, he's such a
Speaker 4: game plan defensive coordinator. Is that one of the reasons
Speaker 4: why you keep all that stuff in the preseason close
Speaker 4: to the best kind of you know, make sure that
Speaker 4: he can't no competitive advantage format.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think part of that is true. And I
Speaker 3: think you'll recognize this too, Logan, And that's why we've
Speaker 3: got a good experience staff here. You've got to be
Speaker 3: able to adjust, you know, when it comes you think
Speaker 3: they may play you one way and they don't, you know,
Speaker 3: and say they want a blitz fifty percent of the
Speaker 3: time they can do that. Sometimes you get hurt on
Speaker 3: blitz you don't go down that road, or you load
Speaker 3: up in here for the run game and they play
Speaker 3: it differently. So what's awesome about our team A lot
Speaker 3: of guys with a lot of experience, been in a
Speaker 3: lot of fights, and so knowing that going in it's
Speaker 3: not always like you think the plan is going to be.
Speaker 3: You have certain parts of your game plan we've got
Speaker 3: to go execute, but you also have to adjust and
Speaker 3: when those times and those moments come, you've got to
Speaker 3: go nail it. And I love the fact that we've
Speaker 3: got a lot of guys that have been in the
Speaker 3: fights and are ready to adjust when needed.
Speaker 1: And the books brought back Baker Mayfield has to have
Speaker 1: in a career year last year, what chilencees the guy
Speaker 1: like Baker Mayfield polls for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's such a gamer and he's tough too. Like
Speaker 3: this guy, he'll get in the pocket, will extend plays
Speaker 3: and what you can see is, you know, on the
Speaker 3: deep balls. Like obviously to Evans that's been not just Baker,
Speaker 3: but through the years a number of people like I
Speaker 3: love the style, the attitude that he plays with and
Speaker 3: him and Godwin, But I think what Baker can bring
Speaker 3: is is also some movement, you know, and so in
Speaker 3: this offense, there's play passes, there's keepers ways to get
Speaker 3: a quarterback out on the edge, and so you'll see
Speaker 3: that with him, where you know quarterbacks under center, they're
Speaker 3: going to stay committed in the run game, and then
Speaker 3: can you get outside the pocket to take some of
Speaker 3: these deep throws down the field. And that's one of
Speaker 3: the things that we're going to work hard at to
Speaker 3: make sure we stay on top and make these balls
Speaker 3: go inside where you're not taking these shots down the field.
Speaker 4: Coach, have you seen him change? I think a lot
Speaker 4: of fans think of him in Cleveland where he kind
Speaker 4: of struggled, But I think last year he kind of
Speaker 4: he looked like a new guy. And so how do
Speaker 4: you kind of, I don't know, characterize his transition and
Speaker 4: is he here to stay?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think sometimes you have to go through it
Speaker 3: a little and you find that you end up in
Speaker 3: the right place at the right time and the right system.
Speaker 3: And sometimes as that road and that journey goes, it
Speaker 3: can be a little rocky and it can be bumpy.
Speaker 3: But I think when you saw some of the things
Speaker 3: that he does so well and get outside the pocket
Speaker 3: to do that, that's what brings his game to life.
Speaker 3: And made good decisions and you know, took care of
Speaker 3: the ball. So all those things factor into it. But
Speaker 3: at the core of it, this is a really excellent
Speaker 3: competitor and now and from a system standpoint, you can
Speaker 3: tell he feels comfortable and really has an understanding of that.
Speaker 1: And talk about Baker growing in comfort. Well, now he
Speaker 1: has another new office of coordinator in Liam Cohen. What
Speaker 1: challenges this having to face a new offensive coordinator that
Speaker 1: you don't have as much film on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think when you go through the opening game,
Speaker 3: both sides have some wrinkles and some things to do
Speaker 3: that and logan to laugh. You'll see some coaches over
Speaker 3: there shuffling that paper around. You know, you hit the
Speaker 3: right mark when they're a little uncomfortable because new looks
Speaker 3: that you haven't shown to go. Now, one thing that's
Speaker 3: will stay somewhat consistent is the system, you know, and
Speaker 3: when you have a system, if all three of us
Speaker 3: had the same playbook and we ought to go call
Speaker 3: the game, we wouldn't call it exactly the same. And
Speaker 3: so I think there'll be a lot of concepts that
Speaker 3: Tampa has run in the past that had the same
Speaker 3: system you know, in place last year and this year.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't mean they'll call it the same way.
Speaker 3: Some of the things that Liam likes that Dave Canalis
Speaker 3: may have done differently, that's okay. And how do you
Speaker 3: feature players into the system? So what we'll see is
Speaker 3: his version of the offense and what does that look like.
Speaker 3: So when we get down to it, there'll be some
Speaker 3: plays you have to adjust, you have to make. But
Speaker 3: we're also on that side too, you know, where they
Speaker 3: have to, you know, see some things that we certainly
Speaker 3: haven't shown all of ours as well. So I love
Speaker 3: the gamesmanship that takes place early in the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Liam was in LA with Sean McVay and
Speaker 4: so he's kind of this, you know, this Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 4: Sean McVay tree, which is premiating the league.
Speaker 3: Like, what are some things about that? Often?
Speaker 4: So you say, man, that's you mentioned the movement already,
Speaker 4: the keepers, the boosts, the play action pass. Is it
Speaker 4: just that they're able to get to a bunch of
Speaker 4: different stuff from kind of the same looks, or is
Speaker 4: it that it's it's very milluable and changeable.
Speaker 3: Also, I think the best of the best, and this
Speaker 3: offense certainly has that that they can stretch you horizontally,
Speaker 3: you know, with some zones and ability to get the
Speaker 3: ball on the perimeter and then stretch you vertically. Now
Speaker 3: you have to defend the entire field. So you'll see
Speaker 3: some condensed formations where they can now expand from there
Speaker 3: to use the whole field, or you know, condense the
Speaker 3: formations to throw a shot down the field. So those
Speaker 3: are the things that I think you can expect from
Speaker 3: the system. Lots of shifting and motioning to you know,
Speaker 3: get guys and earn a leverage that they can you know,
Speaker 3: win with. And so that'll be part of the defensive
Speaker 3: challenges that own their own leverage and adjust to the
Speaker 3: motions and make sure they can At the end of it, man,
Speaker 3: it still comes down like we've got to really run
Speaker 3: and man, we've got to hit on defense.
Speaker 1: And you talk about those matchups that we're going to see,
Speaker 1: because don't air it out unless you have some real
Speaker 1: talent over there.
Speaker 2: And Mike Evans, you have a Chris God.
Speaker 1: When you have an eye on who's six ' five,
Speaker 1: how do you slow down those explosive.
Speaker 2: Weapons for the tap bay book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to see where these guys can
Speaker 3: take their shots down the field. So you've got to
Speaker 3: be able to stay on top to make sure those
Speaker 3: shots aren't there. But at the end of it, you
Speaker 3: also have got to put pressure on the QB and
Speaker 3: you'll hear us use the word affecting the QB and
Speaker 3: getting them off this spot where now he doesn't have
Speaker 3: the time, he can't stay in the rhythm. And so
Speaker 3: that's part of the defensive line, the blitz package to
Speaker 3: make sure, they're absolutely bringing it. So these plays can't
Speaker 3: develop and go down the field. And then the other
Speaker 3: part of that is disguised. You show one look and
Speaker 3: then you play the other looks like Manda man. But
Speaker 3: now zone, it looks like zone and you can play
Speaker 3: it as man. And so making the quarterbacks have to
Speaker 3: see what the defense is going to be in after
Speaker 3: they have the ball in their hands as opposed to
Speaker 3: it before the snap. I saw a motion. Okay, Logan
Speaker 3: went in motion safety travel with him is Manda Man?
Speaker 3: I know where to go. Sometimes you need to show
Speaker 3: that it's looking like Manda man and then after he
Speaker 3: gets it, No, No, it was zone. And so making
Speaker 3: those decisions hard. And I think that's what you know.
Speaker 3: Part of what makes Joe special is his ability in
Speaker 3: the disguise back and forth as a defender.
Speaker 4: I mean that evolution to defense has just been crazy
Speaker 4: over the last probably ten years. Like it used to
Speaker 4: be out here's cover two, here's man and man coverage.
Speaker 4: I remember when were in Atlanta and you would run
Speaker 4: a Cover two disguise but it was man, but it
Speaker 4: was actually Cover two. And just like the ability to
Speaker 4: get to all that different stuff and how hard that
Speaker 4: makes it offensively.
Speaker 3: I think it's just really powerful. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 3: early in my career, like in Seattle, we played one
Speaker 3: thing so much. We were exceptional with that one specific
Speaker 3: way that we played cover three and we knew where
Speaker 3: the problems were. We knew what it could look like
Speaker 3: and where it was going. But the game evolved more too,
Speaker 3: you know, where there's more formations, more things to think about,
Speaker 3: and so you can't just be stuck into one way
Speaker 3: and you have to evolve and you have to change
Speaker 3: and show man to man and pressure and then play back,
Speaker 3: and so that back and forth is what it's all about.
Speaker 3: But it's still, like I said, it comes down to
Speaker 3: for us the ball, you know, can we take care
Speaker 3: of it, can we knock a few out? And can
Speaker 3: we really go, you know, try to out hit people.
Speaker 4: This might be my offensive bias, but almost like you're
Speaker 4: approaching like an offensive play caller. Now, you're just trying
Speaker 4: to subvert offensive expectations, right, is that you're.
Speaker 3: Not going to win every play, and we know that.
Speaker 3: And you know, there was a great clip from Roger
Speaker 3: Federer that you know he won eighty percent of his games,
Speaker 3: but only like fifty four percent of the individual matches,
Speaker 3: so like it's back and forth, it's back and forth.
Speaker 3: So you have to know, Okay, they got us in
Speaker 3: that one. You go play the next one, and you
Speaker 3: go play the next one, and you keep going. In
Speaker 3: a game like this against Tampa, this is going to
Speaker 3: be all the way down to the end, and it's
Speaker 3: going to take the whole game. It's going to be
Speaker 3: an absolute battle, and so we expect that, you know,
Speaker 3: for this game to be close and in the end,
Speaker 3: if it goes all the way to the end or
Speaker 3: an extra time, like, we'll be down for that too.
Speaker 3: We just got to know that this fight's going to
Speaker 3: take all the way through the afternoon into the evening,
Speaker 3: and we'll be ready for that.
Speaker 1: He said some interesting coach talking about the evolution of
Speaker 1: the game. When I think about that, I think about
Speaker 1: the running backs, right, and how Rashad White is used
Speaker 1: for Tampa touches. I think the fourth most touch is
Speaker 1: in the NFL for running back. How do you slow
Speaker 1: with shot White down?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And he is really like you could almost say now,
Speaker 3: like a throwback, you know, running back, yes, and not
Speaker 3: everybody's equipped for that, but he has such a good
Speaker 3: slashing style Brian that you very rarely see him get
Speaker 3: knocked off. You know, he's got the ability to bend
Speaker 3: and cut. He can catch the ball out of the backfield,
Speaker 3: extends plays that way because now if it's covered, Baker
Speaker 3: has a you know, person and outlet to go to.
Speaker 3: And for instance, him specifically on screens has been a
Speaker 3: really big deal. And if you got people that want
Speaker 3: to get up the field and get going, the use
Speaker 3: of screens is a big deal. And so he's somebody
Speaker 3: in their system. Is somebody that has some excellent screens.
Speaker 2: And we buried the lead right. We had to ask
Speaker 2: you all these other questions.
Speaker 1: But we know people want to see and hear about
Speaker 1: quarterback Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 2: This is week one for him. We don't want to set.
Speaker 1: Expectations too high, but what do you expect to see
Speaker 1: from your rookie quarterback?
Speaker 3: I expect to see a lot of what I've seen,
Speaker 3: you know here in Ashburn. It's not just the throwing,
Speaker 3: but it's playing the position well and getting into the
Speaker 3: right play when that's needed, speeding up a throw when
Speaker 3: that's needed. But he can really go execute this system.
Speaker 3: And so he's put the work in and now you
Speaker 3: know how good that feeling is, like when you prepare
Speaker 3: for a show, like I can't wait for this show,
Speaker 3: all the work that I put in. He has that
Speaker 3: feeling because he's put so much work into it that
Speaker 3: you can't wait for kickoff and you can't wait for
Speaker 3: these opportunities and the one play and the one look
Speaker 3: that happens and you go nail it. And it doesn't
Speaker 3: come up on every play, but when it does and
Speaker 3: that moment's there, that's that pause, that time to say
Speaker 3: it's time to go for it. And I think people
Speaker 3: are cautious, they don't want to do it and look bad,
Speaker 3: or they pause, they say, no, no, this is the play,
Speaker 3: this is the one. I'm going for it. And guys
Speaker 3: like Jaden, when they see that moment, they go for
Speaker 3: it and coach that moment.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to go for that moment to
Speaker 1: we're going to be seeing you know, and these fans
Speaker 1: are so excited to see the Soul, happy to hear
Speaker 1: from you and get to know you. Co So we
Speaker 1: appreciate your time here and we can't wait to see
Speaker 1: you guys al on Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't wait either, man, And just seeing this
Speaker 3: team come together and their connection, and in a week's
Speaker 3: time we'll get to see that connection with the city
Speaker 3: and the team. But man, we're absolutely going to bring
Speaker 3: it for him.
Speaker 2: Command is family. We know you are enjoying the game plan.
Speaker 1: However, if you want to see coach and logan Paul
Speaker 1: said break down plays in the film room, you could
Speaker 1: check that out on the Commander's YouTube page. Logan, we
Speaker 1: are just hours away from kickoff, which is crazy to say.
Speaker 1: What is a ticket to a victory for the Commanders three?
Speaker 4: Then the number one ticket. The first and most important
Speaker 4: thing is that we make Jane Daniel comfortable. Right, we
Speaker 4: make him the most comfortable quarterback in America. Cliff, what
Speaker 4: kind of game plan you got? How do we headle
Speaker 4: that Todd Bowles pressure? Does he understand the coverages that
Speaker 4: Todd Bowles is presenting? Because if he's playing comfortable football,
Speaker 4: this offense is going to cook. If its offense is cooking,
Speaker 4: it alleviates so much pressure on the defense. I definitely
Speaker 4: think Jade Daniels comfortable Cliff Kingsbury's game plan, that's the
Speaker 4: ticket to win.
Speaker 1: And we talked earlier about all these different names on
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and also on our team, Right, what are
Speaker 1: some key matchups you were looking for.
Speaker 2: In today's game.
Speaker 4: I mean there's a bunch of this game. That's always
Speaker 4: the fun thing about week run is there's all these
Speaker 4: different things you have to see. So to me, Tyler
Speaker 4: Biottish VDAVEA, I think that's a big one inside. Right,
Speaker 4: he's you don't see a lot of true noseguards anymore,
Speaker 4: but he's one of the best in the NFL. He's big,
Speaker 4: he's three oundred sixty pounds, be hotist. You brought him
Speaker 4: in here to handle stuff like this, to handle the protections.
Speaker 4: Can you win that one on one? Terry McLaurin, they've
Speaker 4: got a young kind of first year starting cornerback. Can
Speaker 4: we exploit that mashup a lot of stuff like that,
Speaker 4: which I'm.
Speaker 3: Really excited for.
Speaker 1: I'd love that she went to the trances because my
Speaker 1: key is be robbed against any dude. I just want
Speaker 1: to see that man get twenty plus carries.
Speaker 2: You think it'll happen.
Speaker 4: I don't if we get twenty plus carries, but I
Speaker 4: think he'll be effective. I think finding ways to maximize this, right,
Speaker 4: Can we spread them out offensively? Can we make it
Speaker 4: so that that big body can get downhill and you
Speaker 4: know we're earn those yards, right, That's what we're looking for.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I hope b Rob has an excellent game.
Speaker 1: Looking for guys to swap a lot of paint today,
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