Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. Washington
Speaker 1: has made some key additions to the roster this offseason.
Speaker 1: With OTA's Justin Drew a week away Santana, Massa, Logan
Speaker 1: Paulson shared their thoughts and some commanders that you should
Speaker 1: not be sleeping on in twenty twenty two. Former NFL
Speaker 1: quarterback and current ESPN analyst Dan Orlovski took to Twitter
Speaker 1: earlier in the month. If the Commander's defense plays this
Speaker 1: year the way we expected them to last year and
Speaker 1: the way their talent leads them to, well, they'll be
Speaker 1: playing meaningful games late in December to a talented of
Speaker 1: a roster and super fan, Nathan Coleman doesn't think Jonathan
Speaker 1: Allen's twenty twenty one season is getting enough attention, putting
Speaker 1: out Allen had the most stacks by a Washington interior
Speaker 1: defensive alignment since nineteen eighty three. Hello when nine On
Speaker 1: the year, Alan had the second most pressures among interior
Speaker 1: defensive linemen and a ninety point nine overall Pro Football Focus. Great,
Speaker 1: how's that? Foresekens season? So here we want to talk
Speaker 1: about now, guys, he may be sleeping on. We got
Speaker 1: to comfy little pillows. We can take a nap. Let
Speaker 1: me start with you, logan, who do you think folks
Speaker 1: are most sleeping on? So we can get this pillow
Speaker 1: out of the way. I think people are most sleeping on.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz's effect on this offense and what he's going
Speaker 1: to mean for this group moving forward. I think when
Speaker 1: you look at him and like his skill set, obviously
Speaker 1: there's some issues in terms of his production of the
Speaker 1: last two years, but I think he brings that outstanding
Speaker 1: physical skill set, big arm, quick release. I think his
Speaker 1: skill set fits with this offense wants to be in
Speaker 1: terms of a vertical passing attack, pushing the football down
Speaker 1: the field, opening up throwing lanes by getting horizontal push
Speaker 1: with those wide receivers, all these fast wide receivers. I
Speaker 1: think that skill set's gonna be really beneficial. And in
Speaker 1: addition to that, I think his ability to see the
Speaker 1: middle of the field is going to be a big plus.
Speaker 1: Taylor Heneken did a great job last year, but I
Speaker 1: also think that he needs to know his ability to
Speaker 1: see the middle of the field because of that height
Speaker 1: is going to be a plus for this offense. All right,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to take this pillow out of the
Speaker 1: way for Carson. Plus some people are saying, look, we understand,
Speaker 1: and he understands some soft has. He even told me like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pressure on this one year and
Speaker 1: he needs to stay healthy for that. But some folks
Speaker 1: out there are saying, look, if he doesn't perform this year,
Speaker 1: he's going to be a backup. Yeah, because times as
Speaker 1: the starters over, that's for sure possibility. But I think,
Speaker 1: like with under the tutelage of Scott Turner, I think
Speaker 1: that you might not be in this shure. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to have a nice protective year
Speaker 1: of the year. Okay, what about your Santas. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get his pull out of here quickly. Don't sleep on
Speaker 1: Cameron Curl. I think Cam Curl showed us two years
Speaker 1: ago what he can do for this defense. Two years
Speaker 1: ago he had what Sean Taylor like rookie season, and
Speaker 1: last year, despite going in there and doing this thing
Speaker 1: later in the season, he had to sit and play
Speaker 1: second fiddle behind a guy in that named Landing Collins,
Speaker 1: And I think that was probably a bit of a
Speaker 1: business decision. They didn't want to sit Landing down knowing
Speaker 1: they had a lot to you know, pay him out
Speaker 1: of their pockets. But Kem Curls one of those guys.
Speaker 1: He showed flashes two years ago. He showed those same
Speaker 1: flashes last year. Two years ago he had what three
Speaker 1: three interceptions, a touchdown, eighty eight tackles. Last year he
Speaker 1: had ninety something tackles. He didn't have any picks, he
Speaker 1: didn't have a touchdown, but he showed us. He gave
Speaker 1: us that spark late in the season when we needed him.
Speaker 1: I think Cameron Cruss, somebody that we're not talking a
Speaker 1: lot about this year, would be his show. He would
Speaker 1: really get a chance to come out to starting gates
Speaker 1: and be that defensive fact that we need. Don't sleep
Speaker 1: on count and I mean, you can't forget he was
Speaker 1: drafted way on back in the draft and they've said
Speaker 1: from the beginning the stage is not too big for him.
Speaker 1: He's shown that he's only gonna get more. So to
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna bust open a mountain dew, which means focused.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be going to bed tonight. For
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