Speaker 1: On today's episode of Tickets to the Draft podcast presented
Speaker 1: by Sea Geek, we are taking a deep dive into
Speaker 1: the second and third rounds and breaking down the newest
Speaker 1: commanders at all starts right out.
Speaker 2: Welcome on into the Ticket of the Draft podcast.
Speaker 1: Presented by officialing partner of the Washington Commanders. I'm Logan
Speaker 1: Paulson here with just a guy Jason, and we have
Speaker 1: just finished up Day two for the Washington Commanders. For
Speaker 1: how many picks? We got five picks in today, all
Speaker 1: good football players.
Speaker 3: You're breaking up just a little bit, Logan, But I
Speaker 3: think what you're asking me to do here is go
Speaker 3: through the list because we're presented by Sea Geek, and
Speaker 3: I had the best seat in the house in Detroit
Speaker 3: with Santana Mawson Brian Mitchell, and what I saw out
Speaker 3: there was I saw us take Joshn Newton with the
Speaker 3: thirty sixth pick. He goes by Johnny the defensive tackle
Speaker 3: from Illinois. Then we had a trade. Okay, we traded
Speaker 3: back with Philadelphia, a division rival. I thought that was
Speaker 3: pretty interesting. What do you think about that? Before I
Speaker 3: break down the trade?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know people get into that all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: I think if it's the best, you know, if it's
Speaker 1: the best trade value, you don't care about the guy.
Speaker 1: You don't want the guy that they're trading out for
Speaker 1: because you're trading out of the spot and get the
Speaker 1: best value for it, even if it is with a
Speaker 1: division rival. I mean, I think there's blocking player. But
Speaker 1: I think it sounded like the trade, at least from
Speaker 1: the stuff that I was reading, was very advantageous for
Speaker 1: the commanders and their goals, and kind of I look
Speaker 1: at it, the commanders got what they wanted, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't really bother me that Philly got a player that
Speaker 1: they wanted, because I think that we were able to
Speaker 1: add multiple players that we will kind of the commander's
Speaker 1: math that I look at there.
Speaker 3: So Yeah, So what the trade ended up being was
Speaker 3: that Philly got our second round pick that was number forty,
Speaker 3: and we swapped with them. We moved back ten spots
Speaker 3: to fifty, so we basically did a little swap there
Speaker 3: in a second Then Philly received our third round pick,
Speaker 3: the seventy eighth, and our fifth round pick, the one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty second. Now we got another second round pick,
Speaker 3: so we basically moved up from the third round to
Speaker 3: the second round, getting that fifty third pick. I think
Speaker 3: that that's what twenty some spots. So basically what we
Speaker 3: did is we took what was our third round pick,
Speaker 3: we moved up, we moved back ten spots in the
Speaker 3: second round. That moved our third round up twenty some spots,
Speaker 3: and then we are the one sixty first pick in
Speaker 3: the fifth round. So it was basically my guess was
Speaker 3: that Peters and the front office was like, hey, we
Speaker 3: have a big board here. We have a bunch of
Speaker 3: guys that we feel comfortable with that we can move
Speaker 3: back ten spots, but we also have some guys that
Speaker 3: may not be there in the later in the later rounds,
Speaker 3: like getting into that third round, we want to kind
Speaker 3: of stay here in the second and grab a couple
Speaker 3: of guys back here stay in this tier. So this
Speaker 3: made the smart move for them, but it seemed like
Speaker 3: a smart move for them.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: That's just again, all right, So then we went to
Speaker 3: what those picks ended up being. So the fiftieth pick
Speaker 3: was Mike Sanders, still the defensive back from Michigan. Small
Speaker 3: little guy but twitched up quick. He's probably going to
Speaker 3: be in the nickel I would think. Then in the
Speaker 3: fifty third pick, we got Ben sinnat the tight end
Speaker 3: from Kansas. I can't wait to hear you break him down.
Speaker 3: In the third round, the sixty seventh pick, Brandon Coleman,
Speaker 3: that's where we got the tackle from TCU. And we
Speaker 3: have remaining picks number one hundred, right, that's.
Speaker 2: The last one hundred, and that was Luke McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: Luke McCaffrey, the wide receiver six ' to two out
Speaker 3: of Rice, little brother of Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know so, I think, just on the whole,
Speaker 1: I think Johnny Newton's kind of the most interesting, not
Speaker 1: the most interesting. I think he surprised me of the day,
Speaker 1: not because of you know, the player necessarily, but because
Speaker 1: he was still available. And I think that the Commanders
Speaker 1: did one hundred percent of the right thing of taking
Speaker 1: a tack who twitched up, got great hands, he's got
Speaker 1: a great motor, he's a captain, very productive player, understands
Speaker 1: how to win from a pass rushed at. And then
Speaker 1: really nice depth rotational piece for the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 2: And I think it also allows.
Speaker 1: You to deploy those different body types, those big defensive
Speaker 1: tackle bots of Don and John Allen in different ways
Speaker 1: by getting another pass rusher on the field. So I
Speaker 1: love that, And I think that's an example of kind
Speaker 1: of what you alluding to, Jason, where you say this guy,
Speaker 1: you know you're on a board kind of head and shoulders,
Speaker 1: like too good to pass up.
Speaker 2: Let's take him.
Speaker 1: And I think that's kind of how I feel about
Speaker 1: Johnny Newton and again very as that he was and
Speaker 1: I had a first round great on him and really
Speaker 1: happy that he ends up falling to the Commanders.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I agree. I think our fans have
Speaker 3: been winning for so long the best player available strategy.
Speaker 3: Like we hear that all the time. The Ravens are
Speaker 3: attached to that the best player available, best player available.
Speaker 3: And I think this is where it actually plays out,
Speaker 3: or at least where you see it play out, because
Speaker 3: I'm with you, Logan, Like when I released my big board,
Speaker 3: I add Johnny Newton as a first round talent like
Speaker 3: on my board and the second best interior defensive player on
Speaker 3: the board behind Byron Murphy. And so when you're getting
Speaker 3: into this spot, I'm saying to myself, Yeah, that makes
Speaker 3: that's best player available strategy, right, It's what you Now
Speaker 3: I'm not saying they're using my big board, but if
Speaker 3: they were, if I were doing it, like, I would
Speaker 3: do that move right, So I would think that they
Speaker 3: had something along that line where it's like the talent
Speaker 3: level is here, we just got to take it and
Speaker 3: we trust that we'll be able to fill the positions
Speaker 3: with our scouting right and trusting our scouting for the
Speaker 3: later rounds to fill these other holes. But I'm super excited.
Speaker 3: I think he's a great player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think he's a great player. And again,
Speaker 1: I just go back to the physical competitivenessness that he
Speaker 1: I mean, we're going to say that those two words
Speaker 1: a lot with these prospects. And I'm not just saying
Speaker 1: it because that's what Adam Peters said.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying because that's.
Speaker 1: What you see on film with all of them, and
Speaker 1: Johnny Newton's uh, no exception to that.
Speaker 2: I think he just he plays incredibly hard.
Speaker 1: I love seeing prospects that play like that, and then
Speaker 1: you couple that with some athletic talent. You know why
Speaker 1: the first round, if I were to guess, I think
Speaker 1: he's got a little bit of stiffness to him. But
Speaker 1: I think the other things that he does well in
Speaker 1: terms of get off the motor, hand play out for
Speaker 1: some of that stuff and allowed him to be a
Speaker 1: productive player and I think encourage a very positive projection, especially.
Speaker 2: In this in this Wit defense.
Speaker 1: So and then the second guy is Mike sanderstill from Michigan,
Speaker 1: and man he is he is a special football player,
Speaker 1: like when I you know, people talk about him being
Speaker 1: the soul of that team along with Junior Colston, the
Speaker 1: middle linebacker that you know the Chargers end up drafted later.
Speaker 1: But man, he is all over the field. He's he's
Speaker 1: instinct excellent click and close ability. The instincts are off
Speaker 1: the chart. He's a captain on that team. He had
Speaker 1: six interceptions, and he's a guy that you know played inside,
Speaker 1: has played inside in college, but is going to be
Speaker 1: an inside player kind of that rotational.
Speaker 2: Piece in that defense.
Speaker 1: And you see all these defenses now that run you know,
Speaker 1: three safeties in a nickel, and I think the Commanders
Speaker 1: are kind of building that foundation to get that done.
Speaker 1: And people say what about Kwan Martin, And I just say, man,
Speaker 1: you need good football players, and he is an excellent
Speaker 1: football player. Things that Peters mentioned as press conference is
Speaker 1: that you know, obviously he came in as a receiver,
Speaker 1: but at his proto he also did receiver drills and
Speaker 1: just kind of showed off kind of that ballerty and
Speaker 1: again like he like in terms of a football player,
Speaker 1: like instincts to screens, tackling on runs, like there's a
Speaker 1: fearlessness to his game, which I love for a guy
Speaker 1: that's you know, five nine and a half and one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pounds. So again, just a football
Speaker 1: play in Johnny and the guy that I think to
Speaker 1: his team's better right now.
Speaker 3: So yeah, absolutely, And for Mikey comeing from Michigan, right
Speaker 3: so national champ and I know a lot of people
Speaker 3: would say does this fill in need? It absolutely feels
Speaker 3: a need, right because Kendall Fuller has gone. Kawan Martin
Speaker 3: was kind of that guy that was in the slot
Speaker 3: a little bit last year, but he can play that
Speaker 3: safety or that Buffalo Nickel type role and let Sanders
Speaker 3: Hill kind of move to that position there. But either way, right,
Speaker 3: one of the things that Quinn and Witt have been
Speaker 3: saying is they're not gonna let a the name of
Speaker 3: a position that you play like, They're not going to
Speaker 3: let that handcuff them, right. They're gonna put players in
Speaker 3: positions to make plays on the field. And it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter if you like you're a quote safety or a
Speaker 3: nickel or whatever. They're going to put you on the
Speaker 3: field where they think you can make an impact. And
Speaker 3: I think all these guys can be on the field.
Speaker 3: At the same time, I'm also super excited that he's
Speaker 3: a ballhawk, right, six interceptions this year if we get
Speaker 3: if Forbes gets back into that tendency, which I think
Speaker 3: he can, Like, you've got wit putting together once again.
Speaker 3: Another secondary that just that ball is life. They got
Speaker 3: to have it, and it looks like they're getting some
Speaker 3: players that have the talent to go get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And again I just think, you know, you're trying
Speaker 1: to change a culture with an organization, and you get
Speaker 1: a guy who's a captain and Johnny Newton who just
Speaker 1: plays his absolute face off. You get a guy and
Speaker 1: Sanders still who is extremely competitive, plays extremely hard, does
Speaker 1: the things that are difficult for corners to do normally,
Speaker 1: like tackling and you know, taking on blocks, and he's
Speaker 1: very willing to do that.
Speaker 2: So it just makes me excited. Man.
Speaker 1: They did such a great job in free agency of
Speaker 1: bringing in people like that, and I think these two
Speaker 1: guys definitely fit that build and it leads you, honestly.
Speaker 2: Right into the next guy.
Speaker 1: Bensonatt from Kansas State, the tight end who is you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of had him.
Speaker 2: As more of like a full back in my mind.
Speaker 2: You know, he's six three and.
Speaker 1: A half two hundred and fifty pounds, but you know
Speaker 1: when he goes to the senior ball, you see him
Speaker 1: do more traditional why stuff, in line stuff, and I think.
Speaker 2: He was very competitive in those situations.
Speaker 1: And then you couple that with his ability to get
Speaker 1: into two point run a you know, not a super
Speaker 1: sudden athlete, but has some vertical speed, some vertical routes,
Speaker 1: savvy which gets you excited. And I think, again, you
Speaker 1: know we're going to you're gonna get tired of hearing this,
Speaker 1: but a competitive, tough guy that plays football the right way.
Speaker 1: And you know, like what does that mean? Like I'm
Speaker 1: willing to block, I'm going to finish plays, I'm going
Speaker 1: to finish runs. I'm going to make tough catches. I
Speaker 1: don't care if I'm getting collision. Like that's what he is,
Speaker 1: and I think that's just that's awesome. And then in
Speaker 1: terms of usage, I think, you know, again, if he
Speaker 1: wears number thirty four in college, he reminded me a
Speaker 1: lot of Kyle Uschek. But the way you use Kyle
Speaker 1: Uschek is you getting twenty one personnel, So you know,
Speaker 1: a tight end in a fullback, he's your fullback, but
Speaker 1: that fullback is actually a mismatch speech because the defense
Speaker 1: now has to match in base defense. Now I can
Speaker 1: motion that guy to the slot, I can put him
Speaker 1: in line, I can motion him out out wide, and
Speaker 1: we can get a match up on a linebacker. And
Speaker 1: I think he's good enough as a route runner to
Speaker 1: win some of those matchups. So I really really like
Speaker 1: this pick a lot. And I think when you think
Speaker 1: about the flexibility that it gives the offense, it's going
Speaker 1: to be pretty special in terms of pieces. And I
Speaker 1: think it's great that he's going to get to learn
Speaker 1: from zach Ertz.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And if you go to the Commander's YouTube page,
Speaker 3: you can check out the media press or interview that
Speaker 3: we had. We have of all our draft picks. But
Speaker 3: what Benson I was saying is he is a he
Speaker 3: wanted to come here. He loved his talking with the
Speaker 3: coaches when he interviewed with them and met with them.
Speaker 3: He loved it so much that this was his number
Speaker 3: one place. Super excited to come here, super excited because
Speaker 3: of Cliff and what coach Kingsbury can do with him.
Speaker 3: He said, I'm a skilled guy that can do a
Speaker 3: lot of things. I'm excited to be a versatile Swiss
Speaker 3: army knife for him. And then guess what he also said, Hey,
Speaker 3: I know Jade and Daniels. I actually worked out with
Speaker 3: him a little bit out in Calli and like, what
Speaker 3: an athlete, what a baller, what a player like? This
Speaker 3: could not be a better place for him, That's what
Speaker 3: he was saying. And like, yes, how great is it
Speaker 3: to finally have players that were drafting here like openly
Speaker 3: saying this is where we want to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know, and I'm totally with it.
Speaker 1: I know, And a lot of fans were, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe higher on the guy from.
Speaker 2: Texas what's his name, traditions, Javan.
Speaker 1: Sanders, and I just think Ben gives you so much more,
Speaker 1: so much more of what a traditional tight end does
Speaker 1: while also maintaining some of the ability as a pass catcher.
Speaker 1: Like if there was a guy Obviously brock Bowers is
Speaker 1: in his own category, but this Spenser knot's like brock
Speaker 1: Bowers light and so I think with a with a
Speaker 1: very savvy offensive coordinator, he can he can maximize that. So,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe not the vertical passing threat that Sanders is,
Speaker 1: but I think just a much better football player. And
Speaker 1: you know, you love comments like that at the presser
Speaker 1: where he's excited.
Speaker 2: To be here, he wants to be part of the organization.
Speaker 1: Multi sport athlete and the other thing about him, you know,
Speaker 1: not a walked on to Kansas State and then earned
Speaker 1: his scholarship and a guy that's seen adversity and fought
Speaker 1: through things.
Speaker 2: And when you hear Dan.
Speaker 1: Talk about you know, Jaden's process fighting through adversity and
Speaker 1: the different schools, the different programs. You know, the concussion
Speaker 1: I forget against Alabama then coming back against Florida and
Speaker 1: playing well like bensonat has elements of that to him
Speaker 1: as well. So again, really excited because I think he's
Speaker 1: again tough guy, but a nice movable piece that has
Speaker 1: some past game upside and some nice physicality in the
Speaker 1: run game despite maybe not being you know, kind of
Speaker 1: THEO Johnson in terms of builds for example.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and talking about that like dog gas attitude
Speaker 3: right that Dan Quinnon mentions all the time. Now I
Speaker 3: wanted to mention that Johnny Newton and his presser said,
Speaker 3: I thought I was a first round talent and now
Speaker 3: I got a chip on my shoulder and on our
Speaker 3: show that we were doing on our Command Center Special Live,
Speaker 3: That's something that Brian Mitchell was saying before we made
Speaker 3: that pick. He wants guys at this point who feel
Speaker 3: like they should be taken higher than they were and
Speaker 3: are going to come in improve it, prove that they
Speaker 3: were a first rounder. And it's like, because that's the
Speaker 3: attitude he wants with people, right, and it's exciting that
Speaker 3: we're getting these guys that have this type of attitude.
Speaker 3: It's clearly Peters and Quinn are looking for guys that
Speaker 3: want to play football and they want to play it
Speaker 3: in a chip on our shoulder manner. So we were
Speaker 3: just talking there about the defensive line and Johnny Newton,
Speaker 3: let's move to the offensive line. We got to protect
Speaker 3: Jayden Daniels. We know that we need to add some
Speaker 3: depth at all offensive line, and with the sixty seventh
Speaker 3: pick we took Brandon Coleman out a TCU tell us
Speaker 3: about him, Logan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brandon Coleman is a guy that I found his
Speaker 1: off season process to be very very interesting because I think,
Speaker 1: you know, the first day I watched him, he's kind
Speaker 1: of like this thick lower half guy, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of big burly upper body, and he wears like a
Speaker 1: cowboy collar, you know, like a board that you see
Speaker 1: like an old school high school linebacker wearing.
Speaker 2: And you're like, man, that's a guard if I've ever
Speaker 2: seen one.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, you watch him and he
Speaker 1: plays guard at TCU. He plays a little bit of
Speaker 1: left tackle, you know, they had some injuries they had
Speaker 1: to move around the front. And then he goes to
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and he plays guard and he doesn't
Speaker 1: really play a lot of tackle. And then you know,
Speaker 1: as you're watching the film him and then you go
Speaker 1: to this, then you on a combine excuse me, and
Speaker 1: dude tests off the charts. He runs a four ninety nine,
Speaker 1: which was one of the faster times at the combine.
Speaker 1: He has thirty thirty five in charms. He has a
Speaker 1: thirty four hinge vertical, which were an offensive lineman. I
Speaker 1: think is like ninetieth percent time, fifth percentile. Excellent job there,
Speaker 1: does a great job with the movement Joe's You're like, well,
Speaker 1: if this guy's such a tremendous athlete, like why wasn't
Speaker 1: he playing left tackle? Then you go back and watch
Speaker 1: the Michigan game from twenty twenty two where they you know,
Speaker 1: I think it was the National Championship game or the
Speaker 1: semifinal game, and he's playing left tackling and some really
Speaker 1: good NFL players, NFL pass rushers, and looks in total control.
Speaker 1: So it was a little bit of a confounding evaluation
Speaker 1: to me as to kind of saying, why did he
Speaker 1: see you move them into guard?
Speaker 2: But as so far as.
Speaker 1: A player goes very physical, very powerful, very powerful man,
Speaker 1: very strong hands, got good snap from the hips, contract
Speaker 1: well to the second level kind of reminds me in
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, if you see him and projecting
Speaker 1: as a left tackle, which I think you know, based
Speaker 1: on what Adam and Dan had said, that's kind of
Speaker 1: the direction they see him going.
Speaker 2: Understands the pass protection.
Speaker 1: Line really well, knows how to use His length is
Speaker 1: more of a forty five degree setter as opposed to
Speaker 1: a vertical setter, which he which shows me that he
Speaker 1: understands the angle of the rusher and how to kind
Speaker 1: of maximize what he does well, which is get hands
Speaker 1: on guys quickly and anchor. And if you look at
Speaker 1: DJ Humphries from Arizona when Cliff was there, is a
Speaker 1: little bit of an undersized guy, not a truly traditional
Speaker 1: tackle build.
Speaker 2: The same range.
Speaker 1: So six four and a half three point fifteen to
Speaker 1: three twenty five, that's exactly what Brandon Coleman is And
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, oh, my gosh, like this is
Speaker 1: the type of guy they're looking for here, and very
Speaker 1: smart football player, played multiple spots on the offensive line
Speaker 1: captain at TCU, and has that mauling kind of dog
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, you know, like kind of roll you up
Speaker 1: and spitch you out type of mentality, which you know,
Speaker 1: again like just kind of fits. So that was a
Speaker 1: really interesting evaluation for me for the offseason, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people myself included, were like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's go for a tracy player like Patrick Paul or
Speaker 1: Kieran Amadiji from Yale, like these guys that have all
Speaker 1: these measurables. But here's a guy that's been very productive
Speaker 1: in college, very consistent in college and has showed an
Speaker 1: aptitude that those other guys have not shown yet in
Speaker 1: terms of finishing, finishing plays and playing with that aggressive
Speaker 1: physical mindset on every down, you know, as opposed to
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to have to learn on the
Speaker 1: job like Karan On a DG from Yale, or a
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna have to clean up a lot of
Speaker 1: his technique like Patrick Paul from Houston. So very very
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a whirlwin in terms of evaluation,
Speaker 1: but a guy that I think fills a need and
Speaker 1: could potentially be tremendous value here because of the athletic
Speaker 1: upside with that.
Speaker 2: Sixty what pick was it? Sixty seven? Seventh yep? Sixty
Speaker 2: seven yep.
Speaker 3: So let me tell you something real quick about him.
Speaker 3: He had one three hundred and seven pass blocking snaps.
Speaker 3: This is all according to pff okay. Of those one thousand,
Speaker 3: three hundred and seven pass blocking snaps, he allowed only
Speaker 3: fifty four QB pressures. That's it, fifty four. And how
Speaker 3: many sacks did he give up?
Speaker 2: Three? Three?
Speaker 3: Yeah, three, that's insane. And when you have a young
Speaker 3: quarterback that's back there, yes, I mean he might not
Speaker 3: start right away. I mean maybe he does, he might not.
Speaker 3: Cornelius Lucas is on the team that could maybe be there,
Speaker 3: so that Coleman can kind of learn a little bit
Speaker 3: before he gets in there. But that's what you want, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like that's what you want when you have a young
Speaker 3: quarterback sitting back there. All right, Let's move on to
Speaker 3: our last guy, and that would be Luke McCaffrey, who
Speaker 3: had a career high of thirteen receiving touchdowns in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three. That's six among wide receivers. He's from Rice,
Speaker 3: a smaller school. Most people are going to recognize that
Speaker 3: last name, McCaffrey. And Peters knows McCaffrey's pretty well, don't
Speaker 3: you think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knows him pretty well, that's to say the least.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, like when they made this pick,
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of fans, you know, maybe we're surprised,
Speaker 1: I think because there's other guys.
Speaker 2: Maybe more recognizable.
Speaker 1: You know, you're Devon Teese, Walker's your Javon Baker's, Johnny
Speaker 1: Wilson's whatever. But I think one of the things that
Speaker 1: I would call attention to here with Luke McCaffrey is
Speaker 1: I think he fits. He has a level of professionalism
Speaker 1: to the way he plays, which to me makes him,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say a surefire thing, but as
Speaker 1: close to a surefire guy as you can get from
Speaker 1: a mentality standpoint. You know, he tested really well at
Speaker 1: the combines, you know, for as high and he's he's
Speaker 1: almost two hundred pounds, you're at at four four seven.
Speaker 1: He did really well with the movement and the agility stuff,
Speaker 1: which was great, very competitive at the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 2: But when you watch him at Rice.
Speaker 1: Dude has this relentless pursuit of greatness, you know, like
Speaker 1: he's really willing to kind of put his his health
Speaker 1: and his body on the line for those physical catches.
Speaker 1: He's grounded through the catch point in a way that
Speaker 1: reminds me a lot of Puka Nakua. Now they're not
Speaker 1: the same player, but it's that same kind of skill set.
Speaker 1: And so when I watch him play, I just see
Speaker 1: a guy is that screams to me, big slot. And
Speaker 1: so what is a big slot. A big slot's a
Speaker 1: guy that's going to go dig out of safety for
Speaker 1: you. You're going to motion, You're going to maybe cut a
Speaker 1: defensive end, You're going to do the dirty work. But
Speaker 1: by doing the dirty work, you open yourself up in
Speaker 1: the passing game because he does have rot running nuance.
Speaker 1: And I think it's crazy to see all the rout
Speaker 1: running nuance that he does have because you know, he's
Speaker 1: only been playing receiver for two years. He play quarterback
Speaker 1: in Nebraska prior to this, So his man has been
Speaker 1: very impressive. His physicality is impressive. His hunger to be
Speaker 1: great is a parent when you watch the film, and
Speaker 1: he's a guy that is just a you know, is
Speaker 1: an easy bet.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a pro for a long time.
Speaker 1: You can just tell by the way he approaches things,
Speaker 1: and you hear stories about his brother and his father.
Speaker 1: His mother was a softball player, his grandfather was an Olympian.
Speaker 1: Like he comes from a long line of professional athletes.
Speaker 1: And I know there's other guys, other names that were
Speaker 1: maybe more recognizable at this point in the draft, but
Speaker 1: I mean, he is just a surefire thing.
Speaker 2: And the other thing I wanted to call.
Speaker 1: Attention to is I think he has some returnability and
Speaker 1: especially given the new kickoff return rules, it's going to
Speaker 1: play like a gap scheme run or a power run.
Speaker 1: And he hits the way his running style when he
Speaker 1: gets reverses or he's a wildcat quarterback. At Rice is
Speaker 1: downhill and hyper aggressive, and I think it just fits
Speaker 1: perfectly with that new kickoff rule where you're trying to
Speaker 1: basically find a way to create gap scheme, run and
Speaker 1: hit a big you know, for a return. So the mentality,
Speaker 1: the toughness, the physicality, the relentlessness, the conditioning, it's all there,
Speaker 1: and I think he's just going to get better because
Speaker 1: of that. He's a guy that's going to continue to
Speaker 1: get better and a guy you want to bet.
Speaker 2: On for sure.
Speaker 3: Dogs, right, that's what we got. We got dogs and
Speaker 3: getting the best player available while also addressing needs. Man,
Speaker 3: what a time to be a Washington Commander fan. I
Speaker 3: am so excited about what this team is going to
Speaker 3: do this year and what Dan Quinn and Adam Peters
Speaker 3: are putting together. It's a new era here in Washington. Man.
Speaker 3: We have the one thirty ninth, one sixty first, and
Speaker 3: the two twenty second pick still left. That's all tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to see what we find there. I'm sure
Speaker 3: there are going to be some hidden gems in there. Yeah, man,
Speaker 3: what a what a fun time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a lot of fun, and I think
Speaker 1: it's it's so cool. I think to see the vision,
Speaker 1: you know, for the for Adam Peters and Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: and how they were able to execute that, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see how that goes tomorrow because I think
Speaker 1: in one of the things I was noticing is like, man,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you feel how do you
Speaker 1: find guys that continue to have this dog mentality, this
Speaker 1: leadership mentality. But they did a great job of staying
Speaker 1: true to that model and finding people that fit that mold.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see the guys that come
Speaker 1: up with in the fifth and the seventh rounds tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: So absolutely, this has always been a lot of fun
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 2: Logan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been great, man, And I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're into another one of these, but this has been
Speaker 1: an awesome draft process and it's great to see all
Speaker 1: these names that we spent all this time evaluating now
Speaker 1: here as the newest commanders.
Speaker 2: So yeah, awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 2: I think that's it, Buddy,