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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cleveland. Browns to FedEx Field for Week seventeen

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Speaker 1: with playoff implications on the line. Santana Moss and Logan

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Speaker 1: Pulton joined me to break down the importance of containing

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett and how Washington's receivers match up with the

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Speaker 1: brown secondary. I want to start off with we just

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Speaker 1: heard from Terry mcward, like he is a huge part

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Speaker 1: of this offense and the success, and of course his

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Speaker 1: numbers won up a little bit more with Taylor heineke

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Speaker 1: back there, but he's got Carson Wentz all this time,

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Speaker 1: and he's got a former teammate and didn't award. He's

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Speaker 1: going up against Logan. Yeah. I mean I always get

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Speaker 1: excited when guys in college that went to college together

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Speaker 1: and they get to see each other every day in

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Speaker 1: practice get to play against each other, because that matchup

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Speaker 1: just becomes so much more storied. Right, It's like he

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Speaker 1: knows what he does in practice, he's seen it, he's

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Speaker 1: seen it live in living color, and so who's gonna

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Speaker 1: get the better of this matchup? Two guys who came

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Speaker 1: into Ohio State the same year and both are playing

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Speaker 1: really high level football at the moment. I love this

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Speaker 1: type of matchup, especially the familiarity brings. And then one

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Speaker 1: of the things I want to say about that, I

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Speaker 1: remember those days when I played against the Mike Rumps

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Speaker 1: and the Philip Buchanans. You always get up for that

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Speaker 1: because you understand, man, this guy knows me more than

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Speaker 1: I know myself. You saw me more than any other guy.

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Speaker 1: And I'm playing against So I'm pretty sure that Terry's

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Speaker 1: gonna sleep well, and then Zille might not sleep well.

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Speaker 1: Terry always says he enjoys going up against former teammates,

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Speaker 1: and of course against somebody who's one of the best

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Speaker 1: in the league at their craft, and that would be Wards,

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Speaker 1: So it would be a good test for that one.

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Speaker 1: But if we get to a little bit further into this,

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubby, Yeah, Chubb scares me. I mean scares me too.

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Speaker 1: But I think one of the things that stands out

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Speaker 1: is every week I think our defense has been, you know,

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Speaker 1: put under pressure to say, hey, you're gonna get the

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Speaker 1: best back in this league or the band one of

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Speaker 1: the best backs this week. And I think they still

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Speaker 1: to the challenge. You know, they still strong in the

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Speaker 1: paint and Nick Chubb comes in what he ranked third

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Speaker 1: and fifth in the NFL. Our defense have a tough challenge,

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Speaker 1: but I think they're gonna stand strong and do what

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Speaker 1: you do the need to tell Yeah, And I do

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Speaker 1: think it's also important to recognize that they are changing

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Speaker 1: their offense a little bit. You know, Nick Chubb was

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson right, He's becoming a priority in terms of

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Speaker 1: the quarterback run stuff. Nick Chubb, down for down has

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Speaker 1: become a little bit less efficient, kind of took prop

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Speaker 1: up to Shawn right and obviously as a passer and

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Speaker 1: as a runner, they're trying to emphasize what he does.

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Speaker 1: They invest a lot of money, they want to see

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Speaker 1: him go, and he's starting to get a little bit

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Speaker 1: of that rust off. Now let us do the break

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Speaker 1: out oats to look like the guy that got that

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Speaker 1: huge mega contract as well. We're gonna have to protect

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and you have to because you have Miles

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Speaker 1: Garrett coming for you. Logan, I mean, Miles Garrett is

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Speaker 1: like the freakiest human being I've ever seen you when

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Speaker 1: you watched the film, right, You had Nick Bosi last week,

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Speaker 1: who is a barbarian when it comes to rushing the passer,

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Speaker 1: and you get Miles Garrett this week, who is maybe

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Speaker 1: a better athlete. I think his down to down effort

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Speaker 1: guy to rush the pastor we're gonna make one in

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Speaker 1: the lab, he would look like Miles Garrett. So what

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Speaker 1: are they gonna do? And it's not just Leno and Lucas.

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Speaker 1: It comes down to, you know, Scott Turner, what's your plan? Chips,

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Speaker 1: play action, all that kind of thing. They need a

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Speaker 1: plan for him and Santana they have the eighth best

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Speaker 1: the things that stand out to me is like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So that's going to be something that I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: the things that I want to see is because we

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Speaker 1: we can do well with Carson. Earlier this week, head

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Speaker 1: coach Ron Rivera named quarterback Carson Wentz the starter. Wentz

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Speaker 1: in the final quarter of the Commander's loss to the

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. The QP has thrown for over one

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Speaker 1: cut up with Wentz to discuss how he's preparing for

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Speaker 1: the Browns. Carson, So, Coach RIVERI here not that you

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Speaker 1: would be the starting quarterback this weekend against the Clearing Browns.

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Speaker 1: How does that feel, you know, knowing that you're preparing

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Speaker 1: to start another game against the Browns. It's exciting. It's

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Speaker 1: exciting obviously personally, but I think it's exciting for for

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Speaker 1: was it? How big was it for you to be

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Speaker 1: able to get those those reps against the forty nine.

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Speaker 1: It's having missed so much time in terms of just

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Speaker 1: able to have some some game reps going into this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was huge. I thought it was big

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Speaker 1: for me um mentally as well, just you know, coming

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Speaker 1: of the game again. And like you said, it's been

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Speaker 1: mentally for my confidence going forward. As a veteran quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You've you've been around for a number of years, but

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Speaker 1: still this is your first year in this system. Were

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Speaker 1: you able to kind of look at the offense from

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Speaker 1: a different perspective, you know, during your time you know,

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Speaker 1: healing from injury and things like that without a doubt. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that definitely helped me understand the bigger picture within this offense,

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Speaker 1: me down the stretcher. The offense a lot different, uh,

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Speaker 1: How how do you feel like that will aid you

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Speaker 1: I mean a quality run game is always a huge help, uh,

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Speaker 1: You know, to be able to physically kind of impose

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Speaker 1: passing game tremendously and I look forward to seeing that

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Speaker 1: it's kind of the idea of these kind of change

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Speaker 1: up the passing game within it. Yeah, you mentioned the

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Speaker 1: and you know you've got three dynamic receivers obviously with Jehan,

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Speaker 1: and has it? Is it difficult getting that chemistry back

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Speaker 1: a projecting injury. I mean, I think I think the offseason, workouts,

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Speaker 1: terms of chemistry and stuff. And those guys are playing

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Speaker 1: to just you know, distribute to them. Two games left.

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Speaker 1: You guys, control your own destiny. It starts this weekend.

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Speaker 1: It gets Cleveland brown that they have a defense led

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Speaker 1: by Miles Garrett, one of the best pass rushes in

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Speaker 1: What's it like going against his Browns defense led by

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Speaker 1: they fly around. Obviously, they got Miles Shadeveon over there.

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Speaker 1: So h it'll be fun. It'll be a fun matchup.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. We got him at home. UM, and so

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Speaker 1: it'll be fun. Yeah, that's great. Well, I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see you guys and see you out there Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Going to gets to Cleveland Browns, my home top team,

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Speaker 1: but I will not be rooting for those brows. You

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Speaker 1: know who I'll be rooting for Sunday. Appreciate you for

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