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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. All

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Speaker 1: sites are said on welcoming Aaron Rodgers and the Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers to FedEx Field for Week seven matchup. London

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Speaker 1: Fletcher and Santana Moss joined me to break down the

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Speaker 1: Packers and the Commander's offense under quarterback Taylor Heimakings. Look.

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Speaker 1: Taylor being familiar with the offense that Scott Turner runs

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Speaker 1: is one of the main reasons he was brought here

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Speaker 1: to begin with as an emergency COVID quarterback, not realizing

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Speaker 1: he'd take over pretty much all of last season in

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Speaker 1: the Snap's gonna be the first game he starts since

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Speaker 1: the end of last season against the Giants. Look, you

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Speaker 1: already heard that he uses his legs when the play

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Speaker 1: breaks down. He's not afraid to go. He throws a

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Speaker 1: little bit with his hair on fire. But what would

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Speaker 1: you say are the greatest strengths that he has, London, Well,

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Speaker 1: just that the ability to extend plays and put pressure

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Speaker 1: on defense with his mobility, his ability to make off

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Speaker 1: schedule plays, and also you'll be able to add the

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Speaker 1: element of the zone rewear or some design quarterback run

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Speaker 1: and it's going to open up the offense from that standpoint,

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Speaker 1: more movement passes, more bootlegs, things like that. I think

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Speaker 1: also maybe you'll see Scott Turner go a little bit

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Speaker 1: more to the quick short short passing games, some of

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Speaker 1: the intervarior rowsing and go play action and take his

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Speaker 1: shots down the field with what the Packers have to

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Speaker 1: try to stop stop our running game. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that was, you know

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Speaker 1: that that was clear that what coach stood out and

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Speaker 1: said that stood out to me that coach said was,

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Speaker 1: you know, his pamiliarity, you know with the system. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's been the system long enough, so they have a

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Speaker 1: chance of saying, okay, we can gauge off what he

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Speaker 1: did will and what he didn't do well. So and

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Speaker 1: as any player that's putting this situation again, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: Teller as a veteran, knows that, hey, this is what

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Speaker 1: I need to correct from last year or the years previously.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna you know, bring my game to another level.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just looking forward to this guy now showing

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Speaker 1: his team what he's learned from himself in year three,

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Speaker 1: you know, running his offense and another thing that we

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Speaker 1: need to touch on when he was a starter. A

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Speaker 1: year ago, we didn't have the type of talent that

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Speaker 1: we haven't skilled position. We didn't have a Jahan Dotson,

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Speaker 1: we didn't have a Brian Robertson. We didn't we didn't

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Speaker 1: utilize Antonio Gibson in the matter that we can use

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Speaker 1: utilize him now and health healthy either, So there will

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Speaker 1: be more playmakers at his disposal, where last year was

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Speaker 1: really the Terry mcclarin and the j. D mckittick show

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Speaker 1: from from the standpoint of who you're going to get

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Speaker 1: to the ball too. So now that he has more options, Santana,

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Is there a way it could

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Speaker 1: be something or maybe it's it's too Do they have

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Speaker 1: to adjust maybe a little bit so it doesn't become

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Speaker 1: too much. It's a great question, But I think this

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Speaker 1: is going to rely on solely on the coordinator making

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Speaker 1: sure that he put these guys in a great situation.

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Speaker 1: I think, um, that's something that we've been harping on,

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Speaker 1: you know, des far in the season, when he comes

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Speaker 1: to seeing that favorable matchup, seeing that that we can

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Speaker 1: make those adjustments throughout the game. When you want to

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Speaker 1: get a guy matched up on someone who you know,

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Speaker 1: we can take advantage of um when you have a

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Speaker 1: guy that's more familiar with your offense. Let's see if this,

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Speaker 1: you know, plays a role on how successful this offense

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Speaker 1: can go, just knowing that you're a little more comfortable

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Speaker 1: with the quarterback. All right, Look, they had familiarity going

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Speaker 1: up against the Packers last season. A little bit different

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Speaker 1: this year though. Aaron Rodgers and this Packers team is

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Speaker 1: not the same team that we saw last year in London.

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Speaker 1: They've struggled, They've lost two straight games. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: And knowing that Aaron Rodgers toil has the ability to

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Speaker 1: have Davante Adams, and he's really without three of his

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Speaker 1: an adjustment. He's playing with a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: the offensive lot hasn't played up to his standard. And

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Speaker 1: you can almost see where see Eric's frustration with the

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Speaker 1: receivers and also with the protection at time. So he

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Speaker 1: has he has a lot on his played as the

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Speaker 1: quarterback with the Packers. And then if you want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, talk about their defense. Their defense has supposed

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Speaker 1: to been, you know, this defense similar to us. They

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Speaker 1: have I believe three more than three first round picks

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Speaker 1: stuff going on other than Aaron Rodgers and him knowing

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Speaker 1: that system. Plus, we are celebrating ninety years of Washington's

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Speaker 1: greatest We welcome back Super Bowl champs and Washington legends

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Speaker 1: for alumni weekend. It is also our homecoming weekend. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have about one hundred and thirty alumni coming

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Speaker 1: out to this game. Like that is a large number.

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Speaker 1: We are going big for ninety. It's so important London

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Speaker 1: to say, like, while we're celebrating today, we play the

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Speaker 1: game for today. We honor, rerespect, and we appreciate those

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Speaker 1: that we played it, especially, you know, given where we

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Speaker 1: are as the franchise in terms of the name change

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Speaker 1: and making sure we still tap into our past. And

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Speaker 1: then the former players, and I loved representative Burgundy and

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Speaker 1: gold to players who played before me, and that was

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Speaker 1: something that I took great pride in and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you did two Tina when you played here, definitely took

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Speaker 1: great pride in those guys that came before us. You know,

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Speaker 1: head coach Ron Rivera has kind of encouraged each week

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Speaker 1: they have like an honorary captain. Some of that comes

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Speaker 1: do you are you receptive to it or you tuned

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Speaker 1: into it? Absolutely. I'm a historian of the game. I

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Speaker 1: you get to hear his story and you know, it's

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Speaker 1: great for that guy too, to know that he's not forgotten.

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Speaker 1: So I definitely took a took a great pride of

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Speaker 1: It always lifts me up in practice just seeing especially

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Speaker 1: you know, seeing Gary Clark week in and week out.

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Speaker 1: I want to put on for Gary, show him that

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Speaker 1: I can, you know, we're out then and did some

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Speaker 1: the things that him and those guys monk did you know,

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Speaker 1: familiar with that coming from college, saw the great from

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Speaker 1: the University of Miami, always in our locker room, always

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