LIVE from Detroit: 2024 NFL Draft Pre-Show | Podcast | Washington Commanders

Santana Moss and Brian Mitchell are LIVE in Detroit among the fans the night before the NFL Draft!

 

Host: Bryan Colbert Jr., Santana Moss, Brian Mitchell

Producer: Jason Johnson

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome Commander's family. My name is Brian Cople junr here
a Super Bowl champion, Brian Mitchell, mister A to the
nine Santay Brothers.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
We are out here in.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Detroit for the twenty twenty four NFL Draft and this
is your Command Center Draft Special Live presented by SIGI,
the official partmy take Me partner of the Washington Commanders.
And of course we have to give thanks to the
MGM Grand Detroit for hosting us here, for having us here.
I don't know about y'all. My room's beautiful. I'm having
a great time. Yeah, my room is beautiful too.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Don't break up rooms with meror.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Room was in the lobby for a while.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I was in the lobby four o'clock. We know what
now we're taking care of. Now, we're comfortable and we
have our commander's family here with us.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
We thank y'all so much for being here.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
We drive from the dmvright and Tonio.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
We have people from all over us. We appreciate you
guys so much.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
And what we like to do here is we like
to really dive into everything that we're going to dive into.
And the following day, which we're going to have a
live show Thursday night for the draft, and we're giving
you everything you need to know about our next kick,
our first round pick. And what did we always like
to do with these fellas because they played the game,
because they've been here before. We like to get their memories,

(01:07):
their times. And both of these brothers have the pleasure
of being drafted.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
We missed you went in the fifth round.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Man, Bring us back to that point, and what did
that moment mean for you and your family?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Brother? Well, I went.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I was drafted so long ago it wasn't on TV
to be honest with. But the other thing. You listen, man,
I know every guy waiting to be drafted, they don't
care which round, which position.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
It seems like that you just want to be picked.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yes, and once your picked, I don't care if it's
the first pick or the last pick or undrafted free agent.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
You're an estatic.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
You're happy because you know what that lifelong dream is
finally coming to fruition. You know I got drafted. I
was sitting there, I was on my sofa sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
And my phone wrung.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I had that big old Sailor one.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Anybody remember that you had that big sailor one phone
and they say, we're gonna call you in our next
next pick, and we're gonna pick you. It was coch
don bro And once I got drafted, I went to
the local watering hole and we had a part. You know, listen,
I was fifth rounded, but you would have sworn I
was the first route.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Everything was on the house.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
I had a great time, but once I got drafted,
my mindset immediately went to, now I have to show
them who I am, what I'm about, and have to
do it for the long term. And by having that mindset,
I was able to stay around for fourteen years. Yes,
that draft is only one thing. It's what you do
after the draft is what's gonna ready to keep you around.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
So be mich I've kind of heard that a bunch
from like different prospects. If the guys that kind of
went like outside of the first and second, were you
sleeping and like trying to relax because you were trying
to not let the pressure of the situation get to
you or was it just you just knew you were
getting drafted at some point, Like why were you so
calm in that moment?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I was frustrated, to be honest with you, because
they told me, I was gonna I mean, the same
said they were gonna drafted in the second round. Still
as that mentioned third round, those rounds passed. But when
I was drafted, I forgot about who said they were
gonna draft me somewhere. I just all I wanted was
the opportunity. And once you get the opportunity, that's all
that matters.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Listen, Man Tanner, when he got drafted, it didn't make
it difference the first round. He wanted to prove something
to somebody. You know, what's inside of you has to
come out, you know. I always tell people. I see
everybody every year get that little silver medallion. Do you
have to work ethic to match that silver medallion? Oh
you're gonna just be wearing that for a bit and
going back home.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, and you talk about work ethic, Satanna, That's a
perfect transition to you, my brother, because you were a
first round pick.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, talk to us about that. Kind of a different.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Experience for you. But I love hearing your draft stories
because I know that was a very important time for you.
I mean, yeah, I mean, but he did it on
the head. I cared less about the round. But at
that point you got to think about it, I kind
of came to the back door of college football by
being a walk on. So to come through the way
I got into playing ball as a walk on to
now be leaving as a first round.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Pick or a draft choice.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I was looking at all the stuff that I didn't
get a chance to experience going into college now I'm
experiencing now leaving here. You know, far as like being
a guy that's hardly highly sought out, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
I watched so many.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Guys take these trips to these colleges and you know,
be high recruits, and now here I am going to
the NFL that that big time recruit.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
When it came to singing bows.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Money right, yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, I didn't have to.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
On that stuff, so you know, but it was just
I was ecstatic, though. Bro I looked at it.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I looked at my journey, and I'm like, you know what.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I would do it all over again, because, you know,
in order for us to do what we do, you know,
you hear a lot of folks say, man, you got
to be a little crazy. Yeah, you gotta be a
little crazy, but at the same time, you gotta have purpose. Yes,
and I think that's one of the things in life
that we all have, regardless of if you're playing a professional
your professional athlete, or you just want to be, you know,
your every day, nine to five worker. You got to
have a purpose. And I had a purpose from day one.

(04:51):
My goal was to be an NFL player. When I asked,
when I was asked that question at five and six
years old, who you want to be when you grow up?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
What you want to do when you grow up?

Speaker 1 (04:58):
When I said that to my father, I've always had
that in my mind. So that was my purpose and
I was able now to finally see that, you know,
come to fuition.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
I was a quarterback in college and the Saskatchewan rough
Riders had my rights and I was basically a first
round pick to go to Canada.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
They were gonna know, they need more money.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Wow, But I have never dreamed about playing for all Canada.
So I told them, listen, you wait around. If I
go on that first day, I'm gonna try the NFL.
If I something happened and you can see me. They
held my rights till I was in my year, my
eleventh years, you know, and they never let him go.
But the ultimate thing for me was I wanted that

(05:40):
shot at the NFL. That's what I watched every day.
That's what I wanted to do, and that's why I
worked so damn hard because I had a guy tell
and we'll see you at home in a few I
haven't moved back to Louisiana since nineteen ninety April.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Nineteen ninety a man, and I think you.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Have to have that drive.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
That's why I tell guys off that it's easy to
be drafted, it's hard as hell to stay around. And
when you get double digit years like he did and
I did, that's because we did a little bit.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
We sacrificed.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
We had fun, but we sacrificed and did the things
we needed to do.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
And Tanna, Man, I love you mentioned about living in
your purpose and trying to fulfill your purpose. And ladies
and gentlemen, if y'all don't know nothing about Santanta mass
this brother is way too humble.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
So I gotta give your flowers real quick.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Because back when you were drafting me and you were
having this conversation a little earlier, a five to ten
receiver was not highly sought after.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
A shorter receiver was not.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
They didn't understand what that kind of receiver could do
in the league. Then you get drafted in the first
round and then things change. You kind of set the
tones of the smaller receivers and now that's kind of
the norm for our tennis is the norm?

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Man?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
You see a six two receiver, You're like, oh, that's
a big boy Tanner. Man, how important was that you?
Cause I'm sure you when you were living in this purpose,
you were trying to fill the dream, you didn't really
realize the impact you're going to have. But now that
you're on the back end, Man, how important is that
impact that you've made on the league?

Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
I talk to you about it and it's just like
something that comes up. But to tell you the truth,
until someone speaks out to me about it, saying like, hey,
you and Steve Smith kind of changed the whole, you know,
spectrum of how they view receivers at you guys size.
I don't think about it until I'm hearing it from
someone else, and at the time, being in the moment,
I paid no attention to it because to be told that, hey,

(07:23):
what you did for these four years, you can be
the first receiver.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
But you're not.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Because you're five ten. That sucks, you know what I mean,
because it's like almost telling you, oh, we want you,
but we don't want, like, come on, let me go
out here and show you. So I care less about
the size because I felt like all my life I
heard you can't do it because you're just small, or
you ain't gonna do it because you're just small. But
every time I went out there, I proved you different,
not even trying to prove a point. I didn't have
a point to prove to no one but myself. You

(07:49):
see what I'm saying. I didn't play the game to
make sure that you saw something.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
I played the.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Game because this is something that I felt that was
given to me, and I was going to fulfill that
because you know, sometime, like you say, we all have
I guess you get blessings. We all have our blessings.
We all gifted with certain things. But if you're not
living within it, you're not going out there, you're not
attacking it, then you're missing out.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
You're kind of basically wasting that blessing.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
So I felt like from day one, I was put
on the field to cut grass.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know, my feet, the things I can do on
the football field. What's second to nine, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
So ingo, that was my like. You know, we talked
about going to school. What did you majorre?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, majored, but my first major was football. You know
what I.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Finished, I graduated. I went to school twice, you know
what I mean. I went back and got something else.
But I was there with My purpose was I'm gonna
do whatever it takes here to make sure it comes
Saturdays when it's tigning to go out there and lay
them up, I'm gonna be at my best there. So yeah, man,
I look back at it now and I smiled. But
I never cared about that kind of you know, hanging
over me because at the end of the day, it

(08:53):
was other guys that were small than me that I
saw play the game.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
So I wasn't the first to do it.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I was just probably the first because of the time.
You didn't see too many guys in my side being
talked about as being a first a high first round
draft pick, So that was a little different than first,
you know, from just seeing the other guys. Like I
told you, I grew up in Miami, Mark Duper, Mark Clayton,
those guys were short. You know, I see those guys
to this day and I'm standing next to them, kind
of got a couple of inches on them, you know
what I'm saying. So, but I was enjoying just having

(09:20):
the opportunity, and I think that's more than anything, Like,
you know, not to get off topic, we was talking
about some of these guys being drafted today. I mean
this weekend. One of the things that happened to me
that I was happy it happened. Like I just told you,
I had the first class treatment going into the draft.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm a first round pick.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
I get selected by the New York Jets.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
I go up there.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Immediately I get hurt. So I'm like back at square one,
I'm like, wow, just how quick it came. It could
be taken, and then I had to reprocess and rethink
all that over again. Say, now I got to dig
deep and get back into that same guy who was
hungry enough to get here, and now I got to
start that process over. So that's another thing these guys
have to understand. Once you make it, you haven't arrived

(10:02):
until you really go out there and be specially on
that field. So don't think that you made it just
because you got drafted, you still have job to do.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Ladies, and.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Applause with Santana Mass man, get his brother's flowers.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Man.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
That's beautiful. And you know what command is family. I
think that's the coolest part about this Command Center thing
that we do is we have this type of exclusive
access to legends and grace and people that know how
to do this, and we also have exclusive access to
our fans.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
We want to hear from you now.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
We usually do hashtag left hand up in the comments
to leave your questions for these gentlemen, but we changed
it up a little bit this year. All Right, things
is different. Now we're doing hashtag raise hell.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
That's h a. I l raise Hell.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Y'all can go into the comments and hashtag raise hell'ies gentlemen.
I will do my best to read them all right
now in front of you guys, so y'all can get
y'all questions answered, and you know what being this before
we move on, because you know I'm saying, since we
give it flowers to Santana Mass brother, I think we
need to get flowers you too as well, because you
said it coming out of college.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
You wore a quarterback. You wore a black quarterback.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
At a time where that wasn't as popular as it
is now.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Five ten and a half.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
But now you look at this league now and you
see shorter brothers playing quarterback, and it's almost what people
are really looking for.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Be miss man.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
How great is it to see the NFL develop and
change the way it has since Uni?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
You played? Well?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
It's great to see it because I think the ultimate
thing is, for a period the NFL wanted to say
what size you needed to be to be able to
play a position. I returned kicks and punts. I left
the NFL and you can look at the records and
figure him out, but I was not the prototypical return side.
Barry Sanders was what two hundred pounds one night, Emmon

(11:44):
Smith was about two oh three.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
I played at two twenty.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
I got up to two twenty two twenty one, and
I was still considered a small back. Because the league
likes to tell you what you're supposed to be to
do something. I was the guy that wasn't very I
don't dance. I don't dance in clubs, I don't dance
on the field. So at two twenty one I still
could put down the four to four and I'll put
my shoulder passing your chest. So I played running back

(12:09):
and kick return like a linebacker. And now to see
these guys playing quarterback and being given the opportunity because
they are the better athlete on the field. They can
still process and think and do different things. You know,
I'm watching Kyler Murray and Bryce Young. I don't know
what they're saying about Bryce Young. I was at the

(12:30):
Super Bowl and I stood next to him. Dude is
not five eleven or not. I'm told that he is
because I know I saw the top of his head.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
On an angle.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
You give up the secrets, man, He is not that.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
But I like the fact that, Hell, Johnny Manzil wasn't
super tall.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
What's my game, my Baker Mayfield is not tall.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
If the dude can spin the football and the dude
could think through it, give him a chance to be
the best pass on the team.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
He needs to be the best.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Everybody that's six ' five and take a snap can't
be a great quarterback some of them. And the league
has gotten faster today, so you can't go with these
slow guys too much. You gotta get somebody that can
move and today when you look at it, you have
to be athletic, not very fast, but you have to
be able to move and extend to be a good

(13:16):
quarterback in the league today.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
And be missed.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
You're always ahead of the curve, brother, because you know what,
I could talk to you all day about, you know,
y'all experiences. But you know, we got to talk a
little bit of draft. The draft is tomorrow. Commanders have
six picks in the top one hundred.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, yeah, there you go. I love him. I'm talking
about it.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm excited too. This is amazing, you.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Know what I'm saying, six picks in the top one
hundred nine picks overall. But were talking quarterbacks. That's what
everybody want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
So let's talk quarterbacks. Just run it down the line.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Jadeen Daniels, A lot of people have favored him as
the next quarterback taken after Caleb Williams. We all assume
that Keayler Williams is going to the Chicago Bears. Be Mitch,
Jaden Daniels, what have you seen from this brother that
makes you say, you know what, I trust this guy
to lead the team.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Electric.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
I think what happens is the assumption has been Caleb
is going to Chicago. But I talked to the guy
today on the show and he was like, people are
comparing Jayden to the rest of the quarterbacks. Jadans should
be compared to Kayla. And he said, when you start
looking at it, really look at Jaden's year last year

(14:25):
compared to Caleb's, Jayden might be the better quarterback. So
when you start hearing that, you go, Okay, if this
guy should be in comparison to the guy everyone is
assumed will be the number one pick.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
If you get a chance of picking, you take him.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
You know, we were talking earlier before we started the
show where everybody wants to say, oh, man, he could
be great because he runs the ball a lot. No, no, no,
he passed for three thousand, eight hundred yards. Okay, he
had forty touchdowns, four innerceptions, and then he ran for
over a thousand.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
That's exceptional.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
But I talk with Greg cor Sell, somebody a highly
highly respect and Greg Cosall was like, listen, people want
to sit up here and just look at his athleticism.
He said, this guy in the pocket is as good
as anybody in this draft. So when you look at
a guy that could spin it with the best of them,
and he's gotten better every year. And it troubles me

(15:21):
when people go, well, all he did was get better,
That's what the hell he's supposed to do, all right,
And I can't assume that the guy got better every
year three years at Arizona State. Then he comes here
and he got better at LSU in a conference where
the best football players out there. On top of that,
he had a coach who's a maniac and an idiot,
could be crazy.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
He dealt with him, and he had a he had
a he had a fan.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Base that expects a lot, and that dude went and
followed Joe Burrow and did he probably was as good
or better as Joe in the league.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
So I just think that.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Easy let tricity, and he would want to get a
fan base hype.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yes, that will get him hYP I promise you that.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, you know, just talking about the kid, I think
he's a game changer. You know, That's one of the
things that I think at that position is what most
teams are looking for nowadays.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
You know, we see so many different.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Games that I won in the NFL by that quarterback,
you know, and it's a lot of games that these
teams have great defenses.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Now, a lot of teams now are showing.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Because you know, for so many years it was you know,
defense wins championships and the offense gonna you know, put
people in the stands. But when it comes down to
in the fourth quarter, game on the line, you need
a drive. Who you looking for to make that drive?
Who you're looking for to make that play your quarter?
You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
And we just saw that in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Like I mean, it was almost like deja vu watching
this guy game on the line, what he's going to do,
and you just saw the guy scrap everything that had
transpired throughout those fourth quarters to this one drive. I'm
finna go out there and be special. Whatever they did
to stop me or rattle me, it's one drive. I
need to be special. So that's what you're looking for.
And that's what I think a guy like Jane Dayenes

(17:03):
shows you. When you watch his film, you see a
guy that when he gets pressure, he knows how to
slide to the right spot.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
And when you see open up, let me go. It's
time for me to go.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Now, it's time for me to exit this pocket and
go out there and do what I was blessed to do.
And not only can he run, he can throw the ball.
And he just stated that. So that's what I see it.
And I think when it comes down to you know,
you know this draft, don't get it twisted. They're trying
to find reasons to say what you can't do. You understand,
like they see what you could do, because that's why
they have you up there slotted where you're at. They

(17:34):
know you can be the second overall, the first overall.
You have these numbers, but they want to nitpick what
he can't do or what is it what is it
that we can talk about to make you say, hmm,
this is the reason why we shouldn't, you.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Know, go out there a guy like that. But I
think when you see every.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Guy, because like just because we're talking about James Daniels,
you know, every guy that have a chance to be
in that rim of the top three, top four, top
five picks, all.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Those guys are special.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
And I think it's just about what do you feel
like that your team needs, who you want?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
You know, who's the guy for you? And I look
at it from what we have.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
When it comes to quings Kingsbury, his offensive style of play.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
What quarterback fits that mode? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
I think he's the guy. But if you want to
be technical, you want to be critical.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
You know, I can.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Say that Pennix was probably the better passer in the
league last year, but they're gonna put off there and
say he has two injuries, so that's why we're gonna
put him here, But that he got over that. You
see what I'm saying, So just look at it for
what it is. All these guys are special. I think
Jaydon Daniels was the best when it comes down because
he won the Heisman, and dang right, if I have

(18:42):
that opportunity to go out there a guy that pickure,
you know where I'm going at, I'm gonna go ahead
and put my card in tonight.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I love your guys analysis on that because I feel
like Jayden Daniels is getting keyed as an athlete that
can throw, which isn't the case. He is a quarterback
that is athletic. Had the number one qub are in
the ncule a.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Seventy three percent.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
It's crazy legal.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I gotta ask you, we talked about this.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
A little earlier.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Why do you think he is getting pegged that way?
And why do you think people are so against giving
Jaden Daniels the credit he deserves.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
It's what has been forever. You know, when you are
athletic and you're an African American, you can see athletic quarterback.
You don't get the grace of saying how good you're
in other positions because when you look at the league
right now, Josh Allen is super athletic. Yes, he's a
pass he's a game changer. Justin Herbert can move around.
He's a game changer. Joe Burrow when he's healthy, you

(19:36):
see he runs around, he can move. But nobody ever
just say you just an athlete in garun. But when
you are a guy who's very athletic and you're African American,
you get knocked like that because they only look at
your athleticism and not the rest of it.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
I think what you have to look at is watch.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
The game and listen to the commentators and they're talking
about that was a smart play. Do you see the
brilliance of that? I watched LSU. I grew up right
across the real from LSU. They are talking about him
in a way that that needs to be thought about.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
And let's get to the point.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Man.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Look, everybody, we've been told what we can't do. Okay,
work with your culture. You've been told you can't do
something because people think only a certain culture can do it.
Everybody's already proven that stuff wrong. So now we see
quarterbacks doing this thing in the league.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Help Pat Mahomes. He's done his thing.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
So let's get past that and just let people play
and if they're good, they're good. But we can't try
to you know, railroad him. I put him into like
a little box. He has proven he's not in a
box anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, and Tanne Man, let's move on to the next quarterback,
Drake May, because you know, we talk about polarizing prospects,
and I think Drake May, maybe at all the quarterbacks,
maybe he is the most polarizing. You have people that
love him, you have people that aren't sure about him.
If you have some people are nervous because he went
to North Carolina like a former quarterback that we did have,
there's a lot of speculation on Drake May. How do
you feel about this guy? And do you have any

(20:58):
concerns about Drake May? Especially after he kind of had
a down statistical year compared to the previous year he had.
I mean, I'm a receiver, So the first thing I'm
looking at when I'm watching quarterbacks, I'm looking at accuracy.
I'm looking at can you dissect the defense? Can So
some of those things stands out more than others. Now,
the one thing I did see from Drake Mayor, he's
a guy who's very capable of playing in this level one.

(21:20):
His size along proves that, you know, I mean, stocky kid.
I believe it was six y four six three six four,
and I mean has a nice thickness about itself, like Sam,
like Sam Howell. You know, it almost fit the same,
you know mode when it comes to watching these guys,
and at times you see him doing everything that you
want to see a quarterback do, reading the defense, stepping
up in the pockets, slide, getting out of danger, getting

(21:42):
out of harms way when he needs to. But it's
that pass accurate enough to make a play that when
we need you to make that play or media to
make that throw. And I haven't seen that a lot
on film. Now, who's to say that this little off
time going into the draft, he's not gonna work on
it and not gonna be better when he comes in
the draft. None of us know what these guys are
gonna be. You know what I mean when they step

(22:03):
onto the NFL practice facility, I mean practice field. So
but when you have to ask me today what would
be the one thing in the back of my head will.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Say, it will make me kind of say I don't know.
And that's the only thing. You know. It's all about accuracy.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
And when I hear so many different analysts who probably
spend more time watching and dissecting film than I do,
I'm just looking at for when I'm looking at because
I played the game, so I have a different eye
I have. I don't have to sit there and watch
you know all that family. I'm gonna watch a couple
of key games and see what you're doing. But I
hear so many guys saying maybe he needs a year

(22:38):
to sit See, that's right the flat for me, because
if you're thinking about us in the.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Position that we in, yeah, we didn't.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
We didn't bring the quarterback that we have in our
you know that's that's there now to be our startup.
We need a guy that's gonna be able to come
in there and maybe they might compete, or maybe that
guy's that to bridge, that guy to be the starter.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
But we need somebody who's gonna be ready.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
So when I hear you saying that a guy might
need a year to sit or a guy is not
very accurate, it gives.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Me that that that red alert that.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Maybe that's not guy. I'm going to bring him to
my house. But the same time, like I said before,
what do we know? You know what I mean, just
because we saw that on the collegiate level, that doesn't
mean it's going to transfer to the to the pro level.
If he has the right kind of too literal, the
right kind of coaching.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
I think when you look at it, for me, the
duke can make all the throws. And now I go
back to what's a guy fifty fifty years We called
him the receiver Terry cam No no back in the
day they drafted him here in Washington.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Uh he's now on amazing race or whatever. And he
called him.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Fifty to fifty because he always caught Rob Gardner.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
He dropped all all of easy.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
I didn't know. I didn't know they called we came
in together.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, I know he caught tough passive, but he dropped
the easy ones. You become great by always catching the
easy balls and you occasionally.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Make the spectacular catch.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
I've heard a lot of people talking about Drake and
they say, man, I just look at his highlights. If
I just look at people's highlights, they're great. Everybody be great.
But you have to look at the low lights as well. Okay,
and then there a lot of time they say he
misses the easy passes. You can get better in this league. Okay,
But tenise say that we're in a position right now

(24:28):
where you don't make a first pick a second pick
in the draft, and the guy needs a lot of work.
If you want to draft that guy, you drafted and
he hits the ground running. It just like some people
feel like if you have been improving in college, it
stops when you get to the pros. If you proven
that you get better for five years straight, you're getting better.

(24:50):
You're going to continue probably getting better this guy. So
but I would say this, if they were to draft Drake,
I'm not gonna be upset because the reason I won't
be upset the most important higher or most important pick
of this whole thing all off season was Adam Peters
and then he got all these guys on the coaching staff,
and I know a lot of these guys who knows

(25:10):
how to develop talent. Yes, we've had a history of
coach that couldn't develop talent. Now I feel that if
they get somebody, they can get the best out of them,
so it makes team better. I don't think there's a
quarterback in this draft that's gonna step in here and
just carry the team on their backs. You have to
have people around you and have people develop, and I
believe this coaching staff can do that. So whoever they get,

(25:32):
you know you're gonna go with that. But like I said,
if I'm picking, I'm going with the guy who has
shown me already he's gotten better and better and better
and better. And look how good he got in that time.
And we always say we want a guy to have
some level of experience playing around.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
He's played five years and better, he got.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Better every year, So that experience is a little bit
more than being a guy who's been a two year
player over a five year player.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
You talk about that experience.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I think national championship experiences make a big deal in
this draft. You've seen a guy like JJ McCarthy, quarterback
out of Michigan, just shoot up the boards. I mean
we're seeing things that he might go number two, Like
we have no idea where this guy is going. Another
polarizing prospect be mished. What do you think you've seen
from JJ that has made him jump up like this?
And do you think he can be one of these

(26:18):
top guys to go in the top five by JJ?

Speaker 4 (26:21):
And I think a lot of people are going to
be thinking this way. The guy that played for twenty
plus years and won seven Super Bowls didn't play a
lot in college, but he had the work ethic end
of the determination that most guys do not ever have.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Tom Brady I'm talking about you watch JJ.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
He was on a team that was a pro style
offense that was run first, and occasionally he was asked
to deliver. Here, teams approached him differently than they do
most quarterbacks because if you mess around and go rush
Michigan trying to get at the quarterback one of those
running running right patch going down the field. What he

(27:01):
was asked to do. He did that to perfection. So
you have to look at that. And the guy won
in high school, he won into college. You know you
see him as a winner, and that pedigree goes a
long way, and then you look at him as his
leadership qualities. So when you see all of that, I
believe that you know he's gonna be a guy that
But he in the NFL, Now what do we all do?

(27:24):
The pressure is on the quarterback. He hadn't been a
guy that had to carry his team in the NFL.
He will have to do it. Can he do it?
Probably so? But do I know that for a fact.
I don't know if he can or not. I don't
want to be experimenting right now. You know, Cliff Kingsbury
likes to throw the ball around. He didn't have to
throw a ball a lot in Michigan because they had
some running backs that would run down your throat and

(27:45):
Jim was gonna run that thing all day, you know
what I mean. So ultimately I don't I just I
like him, but I think he can go to a.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Team where he has that chance to grow.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
I look at the New England Pagers as a prime example.
They have a kid that was with us last year.
Keep forgetting all these damn names, Jacorby Persett Jr. Corby
Presett is good enough where he could wait that year
and then come into it and make that run. They
wanted Tom to wait, but injury had him thrown into
the thing, and Tom was just different.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Tom said he ain't ever getting this job back, and
he never did. And JJ may be the same way.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
But I just don't see right now where we are
waiting for someone to develop.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
And you kind of feel the same way, right do
you feel that a top ten or top five pick
it's too heavy for a guy that is not ready
to start right away? I mean, honestly, being a guy
that's been in those shoes, I won't doubt any guy
from having that opportunity, you know. I mean I feel like,
if you're worthy enough and they feel like you're great
for that, you know, for that pick, for that round,

(28:50):
for that number, go get them. But I will say,
at the end of the day, it's all about every
team's gonna pick their poison.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
You see what I'm.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Saying, Like, what fits, what, what's right for me? What
am I looking for?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
You know?

Speaker 1 (29:03):
And that's why I say, when it comes down to it,
that's how you can almost kind of nitpick who's going
to be the guy that goes well because you're looking
at the team. And you know, we've seen so many
years of especially our team, selecting guys that just was
guys that was sart good at football players, but you
didn't have a place for them on your team. I

(29:24):
think now you have a staff that's in there, you
have a front office that's in there that's very strategic
about how they building this team and how they're structuring
everything that it's going to be the perfect guy.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Talking about JJ.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Hey when it comes down to how he interviewed very well,
you know, how he was coached very well, won a
national championship.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
All those things are high.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
And then when you have a coach that's speaking out
about you before you even said a word to anybody,
like he's going to be the best or he has
the best workout, all that stuff carries.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
All that stuff carries a lot of weight.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
And if you're able to step into those offices individually
and have your individual meetings and still pass the tests
and still stay tall, Like I heard a guy speak
one time on TV and I was blown away. So
when you have that kind of intangible that this guy
can say all the right things, then you watch him
play and it's showing up on the field. Yeah, I
understand why I would be sitting there scratching my head.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Should we take a chance at them? You know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
But at the same time, you look at it and say,
how are we running offenses in this league?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Are they run first? Offense? Didn't pass?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
No, A lot of these offenses are passed happy offenses.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
You know we're gonna run just to save you ran.
You know we did that last year. I hated it.
I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
I'm probably sure that we're not gonna do that this year.
But when you look at how he went through his
college career, it was more so older pro style offense
offenses that I grew up in or I came up
in the University of Miami. First, second down, we running
the ball, third down, get open town.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
You're not getting that this day, and you're gonna need
a guy's gonna be a step back, drop back and
throw that ball.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Sling ball.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Is he ready to do that? Can he do that?
We didn't see him do it a lot. We understood
he did what was ax but can he be the other?
Be the other guy on this level? Because I think
any team he goes into that's the style of playing
now today in this league. Fellas a lot of questions
around all of these top quarterbacks and a lot of intrigue.
And our commander's family has a lot of intrigue as well.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
And let's get into some of these questions.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
That of the questions, this is hashtag raise hell. H
A I l raise hell. And our first question is
from Ted Abella. I hope I pronounced that right. Tanner
had twelve different quarterbacks in his career. If he had
to choose which quarterback in the draft he would like
throwing him the rock? Who would it be? That is

(31:44):
from Ted Abella. Great question, Ted, I had fifteen.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Short three of them.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
We can have a talk about that later. Honestly, man,
I like a few of them.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I got told you.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Pendix throws a nice ball, so you know I like Pinnix.
Jane Dames is a guy too. That raised my eyebrow.
I told you guys earlier this year on the Command Center,
you know, and for all you guys that's not watching
the Command Center every week, tune in USA nine now
so if you don't have to worry about going to YouTube,
you can.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Watch it on USA nine.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
You can on the Command Center y'all ask me who
would I pick, And due to the fact of how
things are slotted, Caleb Williams was one of the guys
that I said that I would love him.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
To fall to us.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Probably not gonna happen, but those three guys to me
stand out, Caleb, Pinnix and your man Jayden. I would
put Pinnis in front of both of those guys when
it comes to catching a pass from them. Like you know,
you asking me who would I want throwing me the ball,
I feel like this guy would spot on it. Every
time I watch them play any angle he throwing that

(32:48):
ball to those guys, they're just catching in effortlessly.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
And you know that's what I look for. You know,
I've had so.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Many quarterbacks and people ask me all the time who
did I like the most? And I always talk about
Mark and I talk about Vinnie. But besides Mark and Vinnie,
Todd Collins was my one of my favorite quarterbacks, and
it's because he threw a great ball. Todd Collins threw
a great catchable football. So that's what we're looking for.
We're looking for a guy to give me the ball,

(33:14):
give me the opportunity to make a play and he
throws a great pass and so that's why you know,
I would say those guys.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Man, great question be Mitch, I'm gonna hit you with
one next.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
All right, got you.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
These rookies lives are about to change in a weekend.
What's one piece of advice you would offer to them
heading into the DMV as somebody that has made the
DMV home.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Don't believe anything you here. Listen to me. No, I'll
say this.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
You know you now don't have mom and dad there
with you. You have to be the leader of your life.
And if you have a veteran on the team or
either like Tanner said earlier talking to white size parents,
we have a lot of guys in the area, you
know what I mean, A lot of guys in the

(34:00):
area that are willing to talk to you. You don't
have to, God, go out there and reinvent the ship.
You know you need just reinvent the wheel. You just
want to You want to have people who've been through
it that can help guide you. And I think, don't
be afraid to ask. That's the problem so many young
guys today. They don't want to ask ask questions because

(34:22):
no question is stupid. You always hear people saying that
it's an absolute truth. If you ask somebody something, guess
what the dude standing next to you he want that
same answer. So and you ask somebody that can help
guide you along. They can stop you from making a
lot of mistakes, especially in DC.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I mean d C will gobble you up.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
I played in d C, Philly and New York, three
cities that can eat.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
You alive and.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
York. And when I was older, I went to Philly
in New York. I was still asking questions because there
are certain areas.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
You don't want to be in.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Certain ways you have to act, and you have to
respect culture, okay. And I would tell every one of
the guys you know, coach and when you if you
get into the commander's building, ask anybody.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
I'll give you my phone number. They'll get to me.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
I can let you know the dudes and don'ts I
had brothers and sisters when I was growing up. I'm
the youngest of seven kids, and my brothers kept me
out a lot of crap because they had already been
in that crowd, you know.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
So you better make sure you.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Ask questions to make and get and have some confidence
people that you can have around you and let you know,
everywhere I see town, I see student, you gotta have
somebody that's gonna want your back, you know. Don't just
be finding new guys to hang out. Find someone that
you trust in and be with them all the time.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I want to shine in on that that question.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
It's all about just being smart, you understand. Like the
DMV is a great place to be.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I mean that's what people find it finding hard that
people asking me all the time, Hey, you back in Miami. No,
I'm in the DMV.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
I go to Miami time and time, but I'm like,
I love it up there. I mean, it's just one
of those places where you know you can. When I
first got there, I remember Gary Clark, and it's one
of the reasons why I say, you know, some of
these guys that's playing now when you see us around,
feel free because I didn't reach out and ask Gary anything.
He made it his duty to talk to me, you understand.

(36:15):
So it was times I'd be sitting at the you know,
we and up we had the Redskins at the time,
it was called the Redskins or their They're luncheon right
before the season, and Gary'll find me like, Hey, you
ever leave here, bro, you'll be stupid.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
I didn't, dude, I always tell me this every year.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
But then I realized and the first year that I was,
I was done playing. He hadn't seen me the whole
offseason or season I was. I was actually getting my
NBA and I came back up for a game and
he's like, then, I take you not to leave. I said, no,
I'm not. I'm in school. So he was like, oh okay,
He's like, you bet not leak, and I'm like, trust me,
I'm not that dumb. But the reason why I brain

(36:53):
is up because there was guys like Gary that told
me don't leave. It's so much up there for you.
And the true addition, the history of our team's while
we trying so hard to get that back with how
we play on the field. You know, that's the only
way we can get it back. Got to show up
and go out there and down there on the field.
But also we got to have the right people in
the office to put those guys on the field that's

(37:13):
gonna be able to bring that back.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
But it was started by those guys.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
You know, be Minched, Gary Clark, Mark, you know, Art Monk,
Drek Green, all those guys was a part of those
championship teams that allowed me, myself that played ten years
in the DMV to be able to walk around my
head high. Not because I played well, but because they
brought so much history, rich history.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
All I had to do is show up and play,
and I did that.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
So any guy, I would tell you come here to
them and be about your business. Handle your business, because
if you handle your business, trust me, the city gonna
treat you well.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Man.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
You around a plause of these gentlemen, You around a
plause of these gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yes, yes, man. We love your guys's questions.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
We love talking to commanders family, and we got you
covered all week with amazing content. You those committed You
page right now and check out the Get Loud podcast.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's what the Mouth of the South.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Fred Smooth our guy, and Michael Jason and London Fletcher
joins the show and they do a mock of the
first ten picks of the draft, so it's all draft related.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Make sure you go check that out.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
We also have the Ticket to the Draft podcast that's
on Spotify and Apple Podcasts Epic seven.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Round Mock Draft.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
They go through every single pick that the commanders could
possibly make. That's what your guy, Logan Paul said. We
got my producer here, a Jason over there, just the guy.
He does a great job on that, so y'all make
sure y'all check that out as well. And then tomorrow
we have a special Command Center Draft Night, Live special
for y'all.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Were us three.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
We'll be right on the ground give you everything you
need to know about what the commanders are doing with
their number two pick. And not only that, we'll be
on pre but we'll also be live on the clock.
So soon as the commander's on the clock, we go
live and we talk about everything you need to know
before that pick is made.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
And it's not just us, we got the whole squad
with us, Fred and Jenks.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
They're gonna be out at a fan rally out on
the DMV with the people amongst the people like they
like to be. We have Logan Paulson, London Fletcher, and
Brad Weinstein. They're all gonna be in the studio and
ask for so we have three different locations. We will
be coming live to you guys for only the best
for our commander's family. Speaking of the best, let's ask
one more question from our commander's family, and this is

(39:24):
from Derek Wingham. Do you think we are going to
make a trade to get back in the first round
to draft alignment? Now we're remembering these hashtag raise hell
to leave your questions. We got tom left, so make
sure y'all put those in there, fellas. Do you think
we are going to make a trade to get back
into the first round to draft offensive line?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
I don't know if I think we will. I hope
we will, hope we will.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
Listen, man, I played quarterback in high school and college,
and I played running back in the league. You could
sit up here and get all of the great skill
positions you want. If you don't have that injured in
the transmission of your football team, you're wasting your time.
You need an offensive line, you need a defensive.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Line, and we have.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
We had one of the most popular lines in the
history of football, the Halls, and for some reason people
got away from that.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
They going to get everything, but they never would remember.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
At one point we had Chris Samuels who had a
neck injury, but we had no legitimate left tackle backup
on the team.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
That makes no sense to me.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
So I think we should go back and get a
left tackle and have another backup somewhere along the way.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
It never hurt.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Because if you got a if a guy could play
left tackle very well, he could probably play every position
on the offensive line. So yes, I would love to
see it, because I heard Adam and the last time
he spoke, he said, yeah, man, we have those two
high picks in the second round. You never know what
could happen. I'm hoping that means we're gonna move back
up and.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Get some now Tanna and Command Center. Like you mentioned earlier,
Fritz Smooth had actually said that. He said, I want
to take those top two second rounders and go back
into that first Do you think there's value in keeping
two high second rounders or do you say, man, package
those up, let's.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Get back in that first one.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
You have leverage, so take advantage of one and trade
the other one.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
I think you can use either one.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
You can either say, okay, I'm gonna use my thirty
six pick, or or I can say I have the
fortieth picks, so I use that one and I use
thirty six to get myself back up in the first round.
I think it's almost vital for us to do that, honestly,
I mean, especially depending on how those tackles get off
the board. You know, if those tackles stalking off the board,
we got to solidify that position. There's no way, there's

(41:40):
no way other than doing that through the draft. Right now,
you know, we don't have nobody else that's that's basically
that's still in the deal for that spot.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
So we have to find somebody in the draft.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
And I think if you can use that thirty six
pick the movie find yourself back up into the.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
First man, you might get lucky.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
You know, I have the privilege of talking to two
guys that I feel like every day or half of
the week, you know, Logan Paulson and Fred Smooth when
it comes to talking about draft picks and draft and
all these guys, you know, basically breaking down and are
critiquing these guys they're some of the best in the business.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
And listening to some of their setups.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
About how they would slide up or slide down, it's crazy.
I've been sitting up there. I say, now, I don't
say a word, I just listen, you know what I mean.
I'm very observative. But one of the things that Fred
said that made a lot of sense, is you know,
getting back up in the first round and if you
have to, you know, give somebody a player or another

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pick to be able to do that. And I think
it's easy for us to do that now. The guy
that you might want to go after, because if you're
looking at some of those guys, if we get back
up there and if you go the way some of
these PFF grades are saying, a guy that's in the
twenties area of memes from Georgia, that guy that we
all of them, we know, he's a young buck, theyn't
even play a lot, but it's a huge dude, you

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know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
But we just need somebody for that position.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
We need somebody that we can have to come in
that's gonna be solidifying that left tackle spot.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
So who knows who's.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Gonna be the guy that's available already around that time
if we do that. But I think it's vita that
we do so, and fellas, we got the perfect fan
question to match this, and we're actually getting these fan
questions from the people in the audience right now.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
So thank y'all so much. Say j'all, matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
When I say your name, raise your hand if this
is your question, just so we can show you love.
So say we do stay in the second round, Say
we keep one of those picks.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
All right, this is from Matt. Matt where you at?
Here you go? Man? All right, Ron, we appreciate you. Man,
nice sir.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
So, Matt wants to know, if we do stay in
the second round, what position would you focus on taking in.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
The second round.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
I'm still going left tackle. I'm still trying to build
my offensive line. We were four years of building the
defense and we didn't care about the offense. So you
gotta put some some emphasis on building your defense. I
mean the officer line San Francisco, where Adam came from.

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He walked in, they had a defensive line. Trent Williams
end up being over there, right, They didn't stop there.
They got some more. So when you have Trent and
his crew going against that d line every day, what happens.
So I remember back in the day in nineteen ninety
one where it was a Hogs against the Capitol defense,

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Charles Mann and crew going against Joja Kobe and crew.
When we win the games, that was easy because they
were going through the best of the best every day.
So when we built that D line like that, I
would go to some of the private D line was
destroying our officer line. And I'm looking like when they
get in the game, were going against some TV people,
that's probably building our D line. But you got to

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make sure that your offensive line, like today the most
important position in sports in football, because I think hockey
is probably appearing. The hockey goal is tougher than the quarterback.
Playing quarterback is tough. But you gotta protect that guy.
He's the most expensive guy out there. How the hell
do you not try and protect him. How do you
think it's okay not to go get office alignment to

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protect that guy? When everyone say, oh, how important the
quarterback is, how violently he is, how expensive he is, Well,
you got expensive stuff. What you do, you're protected, right,
So you should be looking at office a line whoever
you can look for him, because this offensive line has
to be if we're gonna go on a run, we
need the offensive line that's gonna be good for five
to seven years to be able to go on that

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type of run.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
And then I gotta imagine you feel the same way
snow brushing with another fan question.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
This is from I'm assuming ed or ed ed my
boy got the championship. Now I see you for door.
You a whole vibe.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
Man.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Man, we appreciate you. It's questions. It is for you.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
A young quarterback can get injured or fall flat their
rookie year. As we see any concerns with the new
guy coming in and running this offense. Well, first of all,
I'm not gonna talk about anything that's not saying prosperity
and good man, let's get all the positive. I mean,
but that's you know, it's football, and that's one of
the things that you know, we sit here to this

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day and talk about the what ELF's about RG three,
you know what I mean, the what IFFs and you know,
things happen in this sport, you know. But at the
same time, I think if we sit there and hang
our hats on the negative part of the game, then
we're not giving ourselves a chance to see that guy
or whoever it may be, have the kind of career
that we wanted to have, you know.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
So I won't get caught up on that.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
All I could do is say, whoever we get, I'm
hoping that we hit with it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
I'm hoping that we're we're dead on.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
That's the guy that we want it and that's the
guy that come in here and do what we need
to be done. But like I said before, it's a
team sport. It's a team sport. So regardless of the
quarterback position, if we don't take care of those other areas,
which I know these guys are going to because they've
done everything else.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Up to this point so well.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
I mean, I mean, we can just throw so much
praise out there to Adam and those guys and crew.
I mean, when you look at our team on paper
from last year, the guys that were left and the
guys that we brought in already that much better, you know.
So now it's all about just to lid Offindy a
couple of key positions in the draft, to bring some
ready to play now guys in office of line or

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left tackle, quarterback, you know, maybe a cornerback here and there.
You know, if we can hit with those guys, man,
we might we give ourselves a chance to go out
there and really compete this year and have.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
A winter season.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Robin hit his first year. Yeah, I think.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
The problem with Robin was decisions that were being made
behind the scenes that made him think he was bigger
than the team. And once you start thinking you're bigger
than the team, your team will turn on you. So
I hope that the decisions that happen no matter who
the quarterback is, that quarterback comes and he hits, make
sure he stays humble. Make sure he understands that you
can't do a damn thing by yourself. You know. I

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would make a point when I was in college, when
I ran a player through a pass, I always saw
someone who didn't do the best job. But at the
end of the game, I would talk about how great
of a job he did, and they will come up
to him and say, man, I miss that block. I said, no,
I man, you were fighting hard. The next game, he
didn't miss the play. When I became a kick and

(48:08):
a part returner, I always knew who threw the block,
the block that sprung me. I also knew who missed
the block. MAGGI saw something, But I found a way
to praise those guys. That quarterback has to play that game, okay,
And if the quarterback understands that mindset when he hits,
he could bring everybody else along with him because long

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as your quarterback respects you, you're never going to try
to go out there and be the one that makes
a mistake and cause him to make a bad play.
So I just think that that whole thing got caught,
got too much hype going with it. But whoever, the
people in place right now, Hell, you meet Josh Harris,
they spend six billion dollars. You would not think they

(48:52):
spend six billion doll because they're the most downloaded people
in the world.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
They should spend.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
I think they're leading with that mindset to where they're
very humble, and I think this team could be great
and be humble. If you've been around long enough to
remember back in the day they were winning Super Bowls,
but they were in the community all the time.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
They were hanging out with people.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
It was a connection, and I think that's what you
have to build on and worried about that more. That's
why I want to see guys hanging out with each other,
because when I am cool with you, like.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
We go on the road for games, we hang I
don't want nothing to happen to them.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
And when I come on this show, I want to
be great to make sure they gonna be looking great.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
And they do the same for me. You get that
happening on this football team. Skoyt's limbs.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Great fan questions, y'all. They do so much for being here,
be miss. I'm gonna ask you a quick question than
and with Tannas. We got one more quick fan question
from Tanna. But I want to talk to you about
this because.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
This because.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Soda Ted didn't mentioned dan Quinn ani Peter's in their collaboration.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
You mentioned this a little early, and I want you
to touch on this. If I feel like they deserve
their flowers. They have to kept this so close to
the vest.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
What they're gonna do with number two, do all the
speculations through being new, through being first time collaborator together.
How impressed have you been with Adam Peters and dan
Quinn so far?

Speaker 4 (50:10):
I've been super impressed because I canna be honest with you, man.
There's been a lot of coaches Stam's come through here
and I'll be walking in the weirdest places and people
give me information and I'm like really, and I just
sit back and it is exactly what they told me about.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
No one has said anything. Okay.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
I went in the same places where I got information
before and getting no information no more for them to
be able to hold this thing that close to the vest.
And I think what it is they are processed driven
to where I'm going to talk to you, you, you, you, you,
and then I'm gonna go back and talk to y'all again,
because I want to see if you gonna remember the
suff They have kind of that lawyer's mindset, you know,

(50:49):
to me to where I'm gonna ask questions. I'm gonna
come and ask you that same question a different way
to see if you're on your p's and q's. So
they doing the damn good job. And I mean, they
did a great job this far, and I've been thoroughly
impressed because I thought something would have came.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Out by now.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
We wanted it to go a lot of people speculating,
and that's exactly what they're doing. Yep, listen, chefter, y'all
follow all of them, Okay, they.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Are speculating just like we do locally.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
They're the best of the best, and I admire the
jobs that they do, but they don't know anything. They're
guessing just like the rest of us.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
He missed Tanner Man, y'all kill this fans y'all killed it.
Appreciate you y'all so much. Now, for those of y'all,
we know y'all are here because y'all are familiar, but
those y'all are familiar with command Center.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Tanner is known as.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Like the drippiest, swaggiest God. I'll try my best, but
Tanna does this thing right. Tanna got the shoes to
the hat all the time. So this last question is
from a fan for Tanna. Now this is from our
producer Kayla Key, who's back in asspron She's gonna be
holding down the.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Studio for us.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
This question is Draft night is the time to show
up and show out?

Speaker 2 (51:59):
What did you wear on Draft night? Brother? Did you
start with the shoes, jewelry or what's it the clothes
that you haven't had? How'd you have you pull it together?

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Oh? Okay, so that's an easy one. Well you got
to think I was twenty one. Yeah, so I wasn't
trying to dress to impress back then. I was as
urban as they come back and it was there. Everything
Sean John and Foobu was around, so I was wearing
one of the other. But honestly, to be real with you,
it's crazy how things transpire at the time.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
You know how when you're getting ready to get.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Selected and you know you want those guys. Different brands
will say, hey, you want to dress you. We want
you to we want to potentially sign a deal with you,
or you sign a deal with us, but we want
to dress you first. See if you like these clothes.
Sewn John sent me a box of clothes, bro I had.
I mean, I have the pictures here. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
I have to send the pictures to.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Y'all so y'all can post it. Yeah, it'd be good
for you know, for off for our show.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
But man, I.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Remember the night before opening the Big Box and my
two younger brothers. I'm the oldest in my house and
my two younger brothers was like, I want this, I
want that, whatever you don't want. And I put my
draft fited. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna wear that's right.
I'm gonna kill him tomorrow. And I put it out,
laid it on the laid it out on the bed.
I had to Sean John had to go see I
still wear hats to these days.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Had my Sean John had and I had the little
Sean John White Bell.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
I mean, I was nice I looked nice that day,
but yeah, man, I was. I was really pleased to
have somebody to say, hey, this what we want to
do for you.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
And it was crazy fast forward.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
I didn't know that I was gonna get selected by
the Jets, and I ended up getting up there and
having a meeting to to you know, potentially sign a deal.
I was so busy on oneing to focus on football.
I didn't want to go through some of the stuff
that I had to do to be a Sean john
I guess you know model slash, you know guy who
where's that you know where it's his label. But I
would appreciate that offer though it was. It was it

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was really dope to have them consider me to being
one of their guys.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
You know, I have a great decision at this point,
she wasn't going to I was gonna say you about her.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
The man is family giving up for these gentlemen right here,
Oh missus saying Taylor Voss.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
For taking the time and wes Man, great job, y'all,
and also give a round of applause to our producers.
That's Maddie Benson right there, Jason Johnson. They do all
the things behind the scenes to make sure our show
goes well, and we appreciate y'all so much for you
guys's hard work.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Now, remember this ain't it for us.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
We will be on the ground draft day doing a
pre draft show as a command Center pre.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Draft live special.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
We're talking about everything that we talked about today, but
dipping a little deeper in. And then when we're on
the clock on the first round, we will also be live, baby,
and it won't just be us. We're gonna be suited
and booted. Paulson is going to be in a suit
out logan Paul Now, I don't know if it's gonna
be a full suit, it's gonna be the jacket and

(54:52):
he's still gonna be wearing shorts. Have no idea, but
we have as I don't know, you got him a
couple of days now he's getting he was clutching up
Logan Paulson, London Fletcher and Brad Weinstein will be out
in Ashburn holding it down the studio. And then of
course we have the Mouth of the South, Fritz Smooth
and Mike Jake's our Get Loud crew will be out
amongst the fans out in the DMV.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
So we got you fully covered. And it's not just
Thursday Friday as well.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
We will all be out there Friday as well, so
we at you fully covered. So make sure you're on
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y'all so much again. Shout out to MGM Grand Detroit
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Speaker 2 (55:31):
Us and holding us down.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
I can't wait to eat the food smell so good.
Hope y'all got something ready for me and Command his family.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
I have a suggestion for him too. Do you salm
and bikes? Did you come on this? Tell you guys
are awesome?

Speaker 2 (55:44):
You know what? Beat Mitch.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
I'm glad you said suggestions because I'd love to get
a prediction on the way out?

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Man. Who do y'all think we taking number two?

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Jd Ohaus?

Speaker 2 (55:53):
That is? Is it a consensus? D Baby?

Speaker 1 (55:55):
I'm JD as well. Command is Family. We love y'all
appreciates that so much. We cannot wait to see y'all
tomorrow night. For the twenty twenty four NFL Draft, we
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