Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. The
Speaker 1: Commanders had to San Francisco for a Christmas Eve matchup
Speaker 1: with the forty nine Ers. With a holiday season in
Speaker 1: full swing, London, Fletcher and Santana Mas shared what's on
Speaker 1: their football wish list, So we feared it's pretty much
Speaker 1: almost Christmas. It's the holiday season. Let's get your holiday
Speaker 1: wish list for Washington trying to get that win in
Speaker 1: San Francisco and Santana. I'll just start with you. So
Speaker 1: I wish you'd ask me this last week, because I
Speaker 1: would ask for a win on on Sunday night. But
Speaker 1: I think right now on my list is just finishing
Speaker 1: the season out strong man. That's that's in with a
Speaker 1: winning record. That's end this year with a winner record.
Speaker 1: That's what we need, right I want to celebrate Christmas
Speaker 1: with a victory. Go up and to go into San
Speaker 1: Francisco and upset the forty nine ers. That would be
Speaker 1: a major gift for us. I mean, it can be
Speaker 1: done right again. That's why they played a game on
Speaker 1: any given Sunday. I mean that would be my Christmas wish.
Speaker 1: I want a victory in San Francisco because If you
Speaker 1: get that, then you come home, you take on the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns at by all means it is a great
Speaker 1: winnable game. We'll see what happens to close off this
Speaker 1: season against the Cowboys. Is that we call him with
Speaker 1: the cow Girls, whatever you want to call him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the cowboy killing find a way to pounce
Speaker 1: on man. Can you imagine how Christmas Morning will be
Speaker 1: after celebrating them. Yeah, going into San Francisco, it's almost
Speaker 1: like it's just gift wrap for us, you know, because
Speaker 1: San Francisco ride and high. They feel like there's no
Speaker 1: way these guys gonna come in here and do what
Speaker 1: they do. You gotta think they have a young QB.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's a rookie. I know he's
Speaker 1: been playing well. But if we have a chance, we
Speaker 1: have a chance to riding him a little bit. O
Speaker 1: Y Plus the Antenna spoke with rookie receiver Johan Dotson
Speaker 1: are recording his first one hundred yard game and how
Speaker 1: he's preparing for the forty nine ers. I got the
Speaker 1: command of star rookie receiver here, Johan, comeing off your
Speaker 1: first hundred yard game, tell me what that feeling was like? Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a pretty cool feeling to get that under
Speaker 1: my belt, something that I've always dreamed about. I'm a
Speaker 1: big yards guy, so a lot of yards high yards,
Speaker 1: that's all big yard guy. I've been in them shooting before.
Speaker 1: But you know what, speaking of the hunting yard game,
Speaker 1: the big catch you had, I mean, I mean, what
Speaker 1: was that like, man, locating that ball? You know, I've
Speaker 1: been in that moment before. You got a guy running
Speaker 1: stride and stride with you. You know that he can't
Speaker 1: see the ball like you can see it, and you
Speaker 1: just made the perfect play man, the perfect adjustment. What
Speaker 1: was that like? How was that going through that whole
Speaker 1: that whole moment in your head? Yeah. So, as crazy
Speaker 1: as it sounds, you know, those moments they kind of
Speaker 1: slow down from me a little bit. So when the
Speaker 1: balls in the air, it feels like I had forever
Speaker 1: to adjust to it. Um. So I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: I know, the DBS right there, he's worried about me,
Speaker 1: He's not worried about the ball in the air. So
Speaker 1: I know, I'm gonna shoot my hands as late as possible. Um.
Speaker 1: And I did that, and I was able to come
Speaker 1: up with a big play for the team. I'm wondering
Speaker 1: watching this, you know, watching you play the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: It's something about that team in New Jersey that you
Speaker 1: just get up for. Yeah, is it a little coincidence
Speaker 1: that you shine against those giants or you tell me
Speaker 1: what it is about those guys. Hey, you know that's
Speaker 1: where I'm from. I'm from Jersey, so you know, I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta kill the home team. Put it on
Speaker 1: when I'm back in back in Jersey and back here
Speaker 1: in DC when we play Jersey. So yeah, it's always
Speaker 1: great playing against your home team. And then you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of get up for that just knowing and hey,
Speaker 1: you know you grew up kind of hearing about those
Speaker 1: guys having the little hiccup earlier in the season with
Speaker 1: the hamstring. What was that transition like to get back
Speaker 1: into real form? It seemed like you like yourself again?
Speaker 1: You know, how was how was overcoming that? You know,
Speaker 1: now feeling like yourself again? How's that feeling been for you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been great. You know, when you when you get
Speaker 1: to take a step step away from the game and
Speaker 1: it really makes you realize how much the game means
Speaker 1: to you. So Agetting back out there, it meant the
Speaker 1: most to me and I wanted to be one hundred
Speaker 1: percent and just give it off from my team. So
Speaker 1: just getting back on the field was was big for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great. You know, earlier in the season, we was
Speaker 1: all saying that you had so much chemistry with all wins,
Speaker 1: and now you have to experience something that I've experienced
Speaker 1: so often in my career. You have to make those
Speaker 1: adjustments on the fly and now you know, get your
Speaker 1: reps up, you know with Heineke. You know, how's that
Speaker 1: transition been for you? Yeah, it's been good. You know,
Speaker 1: working out here at practice every single day, getting those
Speaker 1: reps in. It's big for us because you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't get those rep in the preseason, um in the offseason,
Speaker 1: so building those reps every single day. UM. Just becoming
Speaker 1: more comfortable with each other. It's been working out, speaking
Speaker 1: to the reps and gen just having a chance to
Speaker 1: sit back and watch guys like Terry, watch guys like Curtis.
Speaker 1: You know how that meant that those that veteran mentorship
Speaker 1: been for you and your experience so fun. Yeah, having
Speaker 1: guys that have been there in your room with you,
Speaker 1: right there every step of the way along your journey.
Speaker 1: It's big for you just because you know they've seen
Speaker 1: everything that you're gonna go through ALM, So it's big,
Speaker 1: you know, having those guys and just being able to
Speaker 1: talk to those guys every single day when I'm when
Speaker 1: I have questions or I have confusion about something, those
Speaker 1: guys they got answers from me. Have you ever played
Speaker 1: on the Christmas Eve game? I have never, but this
Speaker 1: is your first first time. They fun, man, fun. I
Speaker 1: may have to tell you, man, I had one of
Speaker 1: my favorite, my best games ever my first year here
Speaker 1: was on Christmas Eve against the Giants. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a little look. I had three
Speaker 1: touchdowns that game, So I'm gonna go ahead and get
Speaker 1: and put that out there for you. Well. I'm hoping, man,
Speaker 1: that Christmas comes early for you guys. Man, y'all get
Speaker 1: a win. Man. But um, best of luck to you
Speaker 1: this weekend, buddy, Thank you, appreciate you for all your
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