Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. All
Speaker 1: sites are said on welcoming Aaron Rodgers and the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers to FedEx Field for Week seven matchup. London
Speaker 1: Fletcher and Santana Moss joined me to break down the
Speaker 1: Packers and the Commander's offense under quarterback Taylor Heimakings. Look.
Speaker 1: Taylor being familiar with the offense that Scott Turner runs
Speaker 1: is one of the main reasons he was brought here
Speaker 1: to begin with as an emergency COVID quarterback, not realizing
Speaker 1: he'd take over pretty much all of last season in
Speaker 1: the Snap's gonna be the first game he starts since
Speaker 1: the end of last season against the Giants. Look, you
Speaker 1: already heard that he uses his legs when the play
Speaker 1: breaks down. He's not afraid to go. He throws a
Speaker 1: little bit with his hair on fire. But what would
Speaker 1: you say are the greatest strengths that he has, London, Well,
Speaker 1: just that the ability to extend plays and put pressure
Speaker 1: on defense with his mobility, his ability to make off
Speaker 1: schedule plays, and also you'll be able to add the
Speaker 1: element of the zone rewear or some design quarterback run
Speaker 1: and it's going to open up the offense from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: more movement passes, more bootlegs, things like that. I think
Speaker 1: also maybe you'll see Scott Turner go a little bit
Speaker 1: more to the quick short short passing games, some of
Speaker 1: the intervarior rowsing and go play action and take his
Speaker 1: shots down the field with what the Packers have to
Speaker 1: try to stop stop our running game. And you know,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that was, you know
Speaker 1: that that was clear that what coach stood out and
Speaker 1: said that stood out to me that coach said was,
Speaker 1: you know, his pamiliarity, you know with the system. You know,
Speaker 1: he's been the system long enough, so they have a
Speaker 1: chance of saying, okay, we can gauge off what he
Speaker 1: did will and what he didn't do well. So and
Speaker 1: as any player that's putting this situation again, I'm sure
Speaker 1: Teller as a veteran, knows that, hey, this is what
Speaker 1: I need to correct from last year or the years previously.
Speaker 1: That's gonna you know, bring my game to another level.
Speaker 1: So I'm just looking forward to this guy now showing
Speaker 1: his team what he's learned from himself in year three,
Speaker 1: you know, running his offense and another thing that we
Speaker 1: need to touch on when he was a starter. A
Speaker 1: year ago, we didn't have the type of talent that
Speaker 1: we haven't skilled position. We didn't have a Jahan Dotson,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a Brian Robertson. We didn't we didn't
Speaker 1: utilize Antonio Gibson in the matter that we can use
Speaker 1: utilize him now and health healthy either, So there will
Speaker 1: be more playmakers at his disposal, where last year was
Speaker 1: really the Terry mcclarin and the j. D mckittick show
Speaker 1: from from the standpoint of who you're going to get
Speaker 1: to the ball too. So now that he has more options, Santana,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Is there a way it could
Speaker 1: be something or maybe it's it's too Do they have
Speaker 1: to adjust maybe a little bit so it doesn't become
Speaker 1: too much. It's a great question, But I think this
Speaker 1: is going to rely on solely on the coordinator making
Speaker 1: sure that he put these guys in a great situation.
Speaker 1: I think, um, that's something that we've been harping on,
Speaker 1: you know, des far in the season, when he comes
Speaker 1: to seeing that favorable matchup, seeing that that we can
Speaker 1: make those adjustments throughout the game. When you want to
Speaker 1: get a guy matched up on someone who you know,
Speaker 1: we can take advantage of um when you have a
Speaker 1: guy that's more familiar with your offense. Let's see if this,
Speaker 1: you know, plays a role on how successful this offense
Speaker 1: can go, just knowing that you're a little more comfortable
Speaker 1: with the quarterback. All right, Look, they had familiarity going
Speaker 1: up against the Packers last season. A little bit different
Speaker 1: this year though. Aaron Rodgers and this Packers team is
Speaker 1: not the same team that we saw last year in London.
Speaker 1: They've struggled, They've lost two straight games. What's going on?
Speaker 1: And knowing that Aaron Rodgers toil has the ability to
Speaker 1: be Aaron Rodgers, and they have two very legitimate running
Speaker 1: backs as well, what a big thing is he doesn't
Speaker 1: have Davante Adams, and he's really without three of his
Speaker 1: top receivers from a year ago, and that's there's been
Speaker 1: an adjustment. He's playing with a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: younger guys, and those receivers also haven't been healthy and
Speaker 1: the offensive lot hasn't played up to his standard. And
Speaker 1: you can almost see where see Eric's frustration with the
Speaker 1: receivers and also with the protection at time. So he
Speaker 1: has he has a lot on his played as the
Speaker 1: quarterback with the Packers. And then if you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, talk about their defense. Their defense has supposed
Speaker 1: to been, you know, this defense similar to us. They
Speaker 1: have I believe three more than three first round picks
Speaker 1: on that defense, and they just haven't been playing up
Speaker 1: to that standard. We can talk about the office of
Speaker 1: line not playing well too. So it's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff going on other than Aaron Rodgers and him knowing
Speaker 1: that system. Plus, we are celebrating ninety years of Washington's
Speaker 1: greatest We welcome back Super Bowl champs and Washington legends
Speaker 1: for alumni weekend. It is also our homecoming weekend. Of course,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have about one hundred and thirty alumni coming
Speaker 1: out to this game. Like that is a large number.
Speaker 1: We are going big for ninety. It's so important London
Speaker 1: to say, like, while we're celebrating today, we play the
Speaker 1: game for today. We honor, rerespect, and we appreciate those
Speaker 1: that we played it, especially, you know, given where we
Speaker 1: are as the franchise in terms of the name change
Speaker 1: and making sure we still tap into our past. And
Speaker 1: then the former players, and I loved representative Burgundy and
Speaker 1: gold to players who played before me, and that was
Speaker 1: something that I took great pride in and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you did two Tina when you played here, definitely took
Speaker 1: great pride in those guys that came before us. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm I still talk to those guys and look at
Speaker 1: them and all just knowing that they got a chance
Speaker 1: to experience championship and some of the stories that I've
Speaker 1: heard from him. But it's great to have this weekend
Speaker 1: because you always look forward to hear some of those
Speaker 1: stories again and just seeing a lot of those faces
Speaker 1: that you once watch play. When you have the alumni
Speaker 1: that come out out to practice, and this is something
Speaker 1: head coach Ron Rivera has kind of encouraged each week
Speaker 1: they have like an honorary captain. Some of that comes
Speaker 1: out and kind of talks with the guys like as
Speaker 1: a player, how important was that to you and what
Speaker 1: do you kind of get from that or you you know,
Speaker 1: do you are you receptive to it or you tuned
Speaker 1: into it? Absolutely. I'm a historian of the game. I
Speaker 1: study the past players, and you know, anytime you get
Speaker 1: a guy that that's coming and speaking to you, when
Speaker 1: you get to hear his story and you know, it's
Speaker 1: great for that guy too, to know that he's not forgotten.
Speaker 1: So I definitely took a took a great pride of
Speaker 1: being able to hear those guys, you know, to share
Speaker 1: their stories and talk to us. Yeah, I always thought
Speaker 1: it was just great to have those guys around, you know.
Speaker 1: It always lifts me up in practice just seeing especially
Speaker 1: you know, seeing Gary Clark week in and week out.
Speaker 1: Now now you know nowadays, but when he used to
Speaker 1: come around, it gave me that kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to put on for Gary, show him that
Speaker 1: I can, you know, we're out then and did some
Speaker 1: the things that him and those guys monk did you know,
Speaker 1: and send us or whatever. But it always was just
Speaker 1: great just to see those guys around because I was
Speaker 1: familiar with that coming from college, saw the great from
Speaker 1: the University of Miami, always in our locker room, always
Speaker 1: on the field. So and just lift you up as
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