September 6, 2025 • 38 mins
Super Bowl Champions Gary Clark, London Fletcher, and Brian Mitchell are joined by Bryan Colbert Jr. to talk all about the Washington Commanders week one matchup against the New York Giants!
Host: Bryan Colbert Jr.
Guests: Brian Mitchell, Gary Clark, London Fletcher
Producer: Caroline Suder, Jason Johnson
Get Your Commanders Tickets Here: https://bit.ly/3SpwKU3
The views and opinions expressed by our analysts and/or hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Washington Commanders or any of their representatives.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Commanders Fan be welcome to Command Center, DC Prime of Moments.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We are here at DC Prime.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Now. If you've been sticking with us these last few years,
normally it's just me in one legend, but I'm very,
very fortunate to be sitting here with three legends, three
time champions. Man, I just feel all this greatness fellas
we outside one in the elements here, we got the
people out here. How y'all feeling this very first DC
Prime Moments? What she'll be doing before every home game
(00:33):
at DC Prime?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, man, I feel real good.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I've heard all kind of talk this off season, and
I'm sure these guys think like me. I get so
sick of hearing people sometimes that have not been through
that fire and don't understand what guys are going through.
And I'm just waiting to see these guys go back
out there because I'm sure they've heard some of the
noise and they want to prove people wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And with a guy leading you like JD five aspect
great things now, I mean, how good you Ben?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
You get so close, get so close to so close
to going to the show, and you don't play honestly,
you can't help it to be pissed off about it
and come back the next year and been putting in
the work and put it in the work and putting
the working.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I know that's the way.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
My first championship game I went to, I lost to
the freaking Giants. That carried me for the next year.
I mean literal, I cried every day for Lease for
three months after it, at least once a week. I'm
talking about breaking that boohoo, crying tears, tear drops right,
oh yeah, But it's all because you get that close
(01:37):
and you lose. I would have rather not have got
there and to begin with, but it did drive me
to come back the next year and kick that assi
the Giants.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
As I want to know this thought be why didn't
give us the bitbo the sunglasses?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
GB like that since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Be New, b C New, and then man, we like sunglasses.
I'll say this though, just to piggyback on what y'all saying,
to be like you said to come so close, get
it to the NFC Championship Game and come up. You know,
I'm sure not reach your goals because every year the
goal is to win the Super Bowl. This is a
(02:20):
new team and I love their attitude and how they
are approaching it, like, hey, last year is last year,
DQ talking about we're not living off.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Of last year.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We'll build on the pond that our expectations are hot.
We're gonna continue to build work every day. Jayden, you
mentioned him, his mentality, his mindset, the stupidest thing I hear.
You hear some guys talking about he might have a
sophomore slump. Those are guys that don't know him. They
haven't seen his work ethic and how he clears blocks
(02:52):
out the noise. We've all been around a lot of
guys who've had fame early, and you can tell when
the ego gets inflated.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's not him at all, not at all.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Command his family if you cannot tell already, which we
know because he are some of the most historic voices
we have in Washington. That was London Fletcher here with
London Fletcher, Gary Clark and Brian Mitchell again three Super
Bowl champions, and y'all mentioned this excitement that we have,
whether it's because of Jaden, whether it's because we made
it to the NFC's championship.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We have done so many things to make excited for
this year.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I feel like now that we're finally here be the
excitement is higher than I could have ever imagined.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You know what, The excitement is there because I think
we don't know and we played this game. The people
outside don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, And let's be real society. Now, you live off
of heighten you live off of what people think. You
live off of astronomical type ideas, because that's what social
media is all about. But as London stated about Jayden,
Jaden goes out there not caring about any TV, not
caring about what people are going to say about him.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He just trying to get better.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
And when you're best player, does that everybody else followed?
I said that about the Washington Capitol. If Alizoeveskin is
working hard in everybody coach don't have to worry about
anybody else has to work because you can't loaft. Then
so I look, man, I am. I'm thoroughly excited. You
got sophomore slump thing? The hell with that?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
C J.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Stroud played unbelievable last year. He lost his top two receivers.
They say, oh, the quarterback had a sophomore slump, and
you allow was terrible. If you thought you a second,
without your officsive line being good and your top two
receivers as a quarterback, you're not gonna look like you
did the year before.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But the boy was bowling. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I want to ask y'all to this because and I
played on Super Bowl team, but y'all played on Super
Bowl here, How were y'all able to perform.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
The next year? Like?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Okay, we wanted and still put it in the work
to maintain that level of success and not get you know, complacent.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I tell you what, Well, after all right, my first
Super Bowl, which is in nineteen eighty seven season, we
kind of sucked.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
The next year the Schaaluar. We won the Super Bowl
that year. But I'm saying, but the next year, you
come back. Yeah, we came back, but I mean different.
I well, first of all, I didn't throw me the ball.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Enough, So that's what it was. That's what it was.
What it was.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I didn't I was the third league receiver on the
team and catchers that year.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeoh, you know, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
For me, we came back and we got almost for
the NFIE Jumpionship in that next year. And the reason
is because that was a dude in our locker room,
who I thought was Superman when I got here. Mooney
Coleman six pounds thirty six, hitch Ways ran a four
or five forty, and every day after the game he say,
(05:49):
we oh, I know, we got to win the next game.
You didn't have a chance to get complacent. I worry
about anything. Coach Gibbs told us, if you're a seventy whatever,
you all, whatever your record is, that's how many days
to give. Y'all remember that we were seven and oh,
we're like, hell, we got.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Five seven days up.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We ended up getting seven days off, but they were
not consecutive and they were not all in that week. Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
So when you have that type of mindset where guys
are making you instantly forget, you know, I remember losing
a preseason game and they would like forget about it
because I was crying. I was the type of guys
I'm like Garrett, when I lost the game, I was
upset and we lost a preseason game out of pisted.
Ravens said, yo, dog, move on to the next one.
(06:32):
Then we won the game. I'll celebrated, he said, yoyo,
move on to that. We had leadership on it there
and that's the difference between me, probably even you and
these guys today. Miney Coleman been around forever, Daryl Green
had been around, and gear that got art. I got
leaders on my squad. I didn't have to come in
be one right now, guy first second year, he's a leader. Well,
(06:56):
I'll look at this and I tell you, yeah, I
listened to a lot of y'all show on the radio
lot we mentioned, and they talk about us being the
oldest team in the NFL. That's actually not a bad
thing because the older guys that we have playing our leader.
So you have a Bobby Bobby Wagner, he's been to
two Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Leader. You just added Von.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Miller won two Super Bowls, been a Super Bowl MVP,
Zach Hurtz won a Super Bowl. Some of the other
guys that I can't think of right off the off
the top of my head that the older guys who's
been in the trench has been in these wars. And
you talked about the leadership too. Hey, all right, last
year's last year. We're gonna hold you accountable and let's
(07:40):
work each and every day without saying is this. I
always hear people talking about old team, young team. One
thing I know for a fact in college, when you
have extravagant freshmen and leadership bound seniors, you win games. Yes,
if you got all freshmen, you ain't winning. You got
all seniors, you ain't winning. When I got in Washington,
(08:00):
we had guys that have been playing anywhere from twelve
to sixteen years. And then I rolled in and Garian
you about seven eight years at the time I rolled
in with Andre Collins is our first year. We brought
a youthfulness to this group that didn't allow us to
get off track. That football team was twenty six point
(08:21):
three or twenty six point four years old, the average
age of that team, and ran through everybody. Don't care
who you were, we ran through them. I believe you
have to have a delicate balance of old and new. Yeah,
you and that experience, and when you have that, you
win football games. You're not winning with all young and
all old. It ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Especially with the experience. Though the experience, there's nothing like it.
I tell you right now, I guarantee you, London, everybody
on here, we were much better our last year in
the league. Our stats may maybe didn't show it, but
it was much better. Our last year in the league
than we were our first year in the league because
we had learned so much for time. That's the most
important part, is the education that you get going again.
(09:04):
I don't need to run four three. I realized that
because there's an angle, Matt, it's called back. Somebody come
to angle. They can't catch me unless I'm making miss
Man's face. How long as I maintain my quickness at
my age, I'm going to win. I was much better
at my I played Miami my last year, worst year
(09:25):
reception wise ever, because they ain't throw me the rock
in terms of getting open the best year at it.
I'm talking about when you looking at space, I'm here,
the defenders there, that's the space because I learned so
much over time. So when you got age on your team.
But people don't realize this, that's a good thing. Terry McLaurin,
First of all, he's done nothing but this. As it
(09:47):
gets older, nothing but distance it gets to They was
worrying about him being the thirties thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
What's that matter?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Man? I played I was thirty eight and a half
years old.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm talking when I'm finished, I was talking like thirty
two to thirty three.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
But but to your point, though, Hell, I had my
best season. I led the National Football League at tackles
at thirty six years old.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I'm talking about what I'm talking about, talking.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
About that experience. I remember when Matt Millan came here.
Matt Millon was like, y'all gonna get some older running
backs because I can't check these. When the game came around,
Matt was the slowest lineback I haven't seen in my life.
Made every damn play why because he knew what was
(10:36):
going on. You watched, Bobby, It's like you used to
do somebody going motion, you know, based off of that
that formation and that motion where they're going, and you
start creeping and then you're waiting on the We call
that a bility of live. You're live based on your ability.
But I watched people come in who they say, all,
this guy runs a four or four, but he had
(10:57):
no experience.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Cole Hulk say his name. He ran out of position.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And he had to run fast because he did not
know where to go. So when you have that type
of thing, when you have experience, it don't take much.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Bro. And I'm here with three very experienced guys. I
asked one question and.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
For minutes is a back of chill.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Hey man, listen, this is the best thing I did
out there. I'm excited to eat here with Brian excited.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, I'm excited too, man, And I'm so happy to
be here with Brian Mitchell, Gary Clark and London Fletcher.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Now we're going to talk about Jayden Daniels in a
little bit. We're gonna play a little game called standing
on business.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I know my boy London Fletcher likes to staying on business,
and we're going to talk about one of our favorite
Washington legends that is going to be entering.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
The Ring of Fame.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But I want to stay on this super Bowl conversation
because all three of you guys have been part of
Super Bowl team.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So I'm multiple When did you know, and each of
you this might be different.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
When did y'all know in that locker room within it
that we have something special that we are a super
Bowl team? Did it happen instantly? Did it happen when
you guys made it to the Super Bowl? Was there
a moment during the season where you said, you know what,
you got something special?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
When Coach Gibbs, we will try to downplay how good
we were we knew how good we were. Man, I
remember that that we were at ten and six that
year first year I got here. Then that next year,
even in training, count like, bro, this thing is special.
And then coach didn't like this. Playboy made us. Playboy
put us as a favorite to win the Super Bowl.
(12:23):
Coach Gibs gonna look where you get your sauce from
right right, and then when you sit over here there
like when you're seven and oh you're one to o
two and oh seven, and oh now you're to eleven
and oh we stumbled lost the game.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
We went to fourteen and one. He took us. He said,
I'm gonna start, I'm I'm gonna view this like a
preseason game.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
He let you put us, put the starters in in
the first beginning of the game, pulled them out, lost
to the Eagles, and then we went on in the
super Bowl, I mean the playoffs run. We scored twenty seven,
we scored another but forty one. We beat Detroit forty.
We had beat them forty five zero earlier in the season. Wow,
in the playoffs. Listen, I was talking about the Super Bowl,
(13:08):
and as I said earlier, number fifty one money came
and told me, we ain't there yet. Keep your mind
focused on the process. And I listen, I think, I'm
I'm a I'm a student. My dad taught me a lot,
and I used to always feel this team is special,
but I couldn't say because I didn't want to deal
with money yet.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Twenty five.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I had to be you yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I didn't say it publicly, but I sure said it
in the locker room, and he heard me.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Tell me, hey, I'll get ahead of yourself, right Gary,
what about you?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Man?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Well, I mean with the with the eighty seven team,
I didn't really realize it until we hit the playoffs.
Once we hit the playoffs, I was like, Okay, we
went away, kick the team's butt away and then come
home and get got to play the championship at home.
That was special. But the ninety one team, by game six,
I was like, I was like, if we lose this
(14:05):
say it was like that that's good job, because no,
because I mean the defense was just shutting people down.
But we're just going like thirty plus points a game,
you know, Like yeah, like and that's early in the season.
We had three or four shutouts, you know, So I
mean there's just it was just you just had a
feeling like we never worried what the score was. Even
(14:29):
the game that we lost, we wouldn't worry what the score.
We were like, oh we got this, Like we never
were never like you know some people we got no.
It was like, oh we got this. We never we
never worried about what the score because we knew typically
we could score. We wanted to score because typically a
defense gold good. If you come up and you press us,
(14:49):
you know we're gonna go phase on them. We're gonna
go do you play us money? Man, that's just waste
of time, that's that's that's just stupidity on your part.
And then if you shut us down a running game,
go be on point. We had every facet of offer,
and the defense was just shutting everybody down. They was
just shutting them down. Did it affect the way you
played on the field.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
We're gonna get to you let in a second, but
having that confidence, knowing when you get there like oh yeah, man,
this is it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Did that affect how you played on the field.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I mean, I think especially like being mentioned had confidence
since he was a rookie, so the confident he never
had a problem with confidence whatsoever. But I think as
you get through the years, you start to know how
good of a player you are, and then you do
get confident in yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
And then I was the guy that grew up.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
My dad didn't want me to talk trash anybody, but
if they started with me, then I could talk trash back.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He allowed me to talk trash back.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
So I like, I mean, I like being that guy
who could be in the Super Bowl and tell you
what right I'm going to run and tell you to
stop each.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Corner and stop it.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
So what I love about that too because I could
be lying though, so that ruings confusion and the defensive
backside right away and be like he lined telling that
you whatn't gonna do? But there's nothing better when you're
telling the truth and you can just come back and
told you so.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Man. Man, I wish I had experienced Super Bowl here
in Washington. That's that's one of the regrets I would
I had, Like I wanted to be able to have
these guys proud of us to restore the glory. But
I won my Super Bowl in Saint Louis and played
in another, and so I played in two in Saint
Louis one one lost one.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
The ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
We get up to a six and no start, and
we knew we were good, but we weren't thinking we
were super Bowl team. We lose two in a row,
so we six and two and it's like, ah, you know,
the same old sorry Rams.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
We were four and twelve a year before.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
But then we get get on another run, and I
would say probably by week thirteen, week fourteen, we were like, like,
we're the real deal. And it's funny that you mentioned
how coach Gibbs treated that final game in the ninety
one season we had we played the Eagles Y two
K year. Remember everybody was scared about the whole what
(17:07):
was gonna happen with the world doing. Once up, New
Year's turns over, we go to Philly, we have a
New Year's Eve party the night before the game day.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It was two nights before the game. We kick it
played the starter is like the first half. We lose
that game. We were thirteen to two going into the game.
Lose that game to the Eagles, but we.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Had home field advantage and at that point we knew
nobody was gonna beat us but us, especially in that down.
So once once we locked up home field advantage, we
knew we were going to the Super Bowl and it
was the same year, same thing in two thousand and
one when we went, we went fourteen and two. We
played be mitches Philadelphia Eagles team in the NFC Championship game.
(17:51):
They were a good team, but we didn't feel like
they could beat us, and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Y'all didn't want to kick it to We ain't stupid now.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Trying to win the game, and fellas is crazy because
we haven't even talked about our game against the Giants yet,
and it's been a lot of Super Bowl conversation.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
But I think it's for good reason.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I think fans look around, I think former players look
around and say, Okay, it's just starting to look real familiar,
starting to feel like.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The good old days. And it looks it feels as
if we're living in the good old days now.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And a lot of that has to do with quarterback
Jad and Daniels historic rookie season now heading into year two.
All of you guys have been there where y'all are rookies,
but now y'all ain't rookies no more. Y'all don't get
that excuse anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's time to be vetts. Jaden's in that position. How
do you expect him to fare against the New York Giants?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Man, Listen, I don't question or doubt anything about jayde
Daniels because I'll be honest with you. I watch London play.
I watched Gary play, and I know how I played.
And I think you got three of the most competitive
dudes in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Ever saw right. I don't know if we work harder
than that. Dude. I wasn't getting there.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
At five.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
The five thirty PM, but I don't know anybody that
puts into it.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Telling Gary, would you say, gay five and a half,
I'm up at five thirty am?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Amen, five and five thirty eight?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Running dad? How he had already been working out already.
When when I get that five there, I'm telling you
I'm five and a half. You're doing that five and
a half.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Your quarterbacks coming at four.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
When you got a little older, you.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You saying I'm the same guy. The defender Ricky Sanders.
When I saw how good he was as a player,
I saw how good Ricky.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Was of in front of him.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
That came his roommate.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
When Ricky went to sleep, I wouldn't train time, know
how good he was hold on, so he wouldn't work
it out because he wanted to be working out.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
If Ricky Sanders came here, I'm just dripping that way.
I'm just driving.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
But seriously, because somebody's always working out and somebody always
on the.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I really believe this team they hit the jack.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Probably they got him man, because we always hear about
Jayden being there, Lucas there, sometimes Mikey is also there,
so yeah, so Bobby's there. They have free and then Bobby,
the old savvy vent. Every time Jayden seems to be
getting a little bit too much praise, Bobby comes set
(20:20):
him down.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
They have the right dynamic for this football team. Brother,
It's unbelievable. I love it.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I love it, and I know things have to work out, property,
health has to be and all that stuff, but you
cannot say they're not doing what needs to be done
to get where they want to go.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
And I believe this.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I think great players, you don't have a sophomore Jenks.
You're a great player. Great players are great, you know
like you do. None of know how the sophomore jinks,
we didn't have any of that. I'm talking about great
players that you hear, your your your stars on your team.
They don't have that jinks. So some players players have it.
But if you're right, you're great. And he's a great player.
(21:01):
I don't think he's going I think he's gonna do
even more spectacul than he did last year. Yeah, because
he got also he got great receivers as well, the
weapons around. I mean Terry, Terry Mack. He a beast,
He's a beast. Garry before we move on.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Because I want I want to play this little game
that I'll produce. It may for us. I think it'll
be fun.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
When you mentioned you saw a guy like Ricky Sanders
and him waking up and his workouts forced you to
be better. So what if your quarterbacks coming in at
three thirty four am? Does that make you as a player, say,
you know what I need to be in at three am?
I need to be in a three thirty.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I think you shouldn't need anybody to make you want
to do what you know you need to do. I
mean that's just me, Like, I'm going to do whatever's
going to make me the best player. So if I
see somebody who I think is outperforming me, I'm gonna
change my diet right away, like right away.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Ricky Sanders just naturally gifted. He you shit was it
was just naturally gifted.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
He didn't work out. I saw what he did. He
didn't have to.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I saw him fall fat on his face and still
running four or five. Fall fat on his face, run
a four or five. See No, it really was probably
more like a four to two quite honestly, so I
know how good it was. But for me, I was
like I think all great players want to be the
very best at their position, period. They just do it.
(22:23):
I love Art, I love Ricky, but I still wanted
to be better than both of them. Not saying that
I was, but I wanted to be better than both
of them. And I drove myself so I could feel
like I was better than both of them. I mean
that's what That's what I did, and that's what they did.
That's what made us so good as a as a
threesome and made uself good because we pushed one another.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I'm sure this guy did the same thing too.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
It makes you better, you know, so you kind of
hope that you have those things like I'm hoping that
people makes Terry have been better and Terry makes people better.
I'm hoping that that happens because at the end of
the day, you need somebody to push you. Once you
get comfortable, your game starts.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
To go down. Absolutely once you come comfortable your game.
Ought to do this, but they could have drafted the
seventh seventh round live backup. I'm like they try to
replace exactly. They drafted.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
The Heis and Trophy winner, and they drafted a Rose
Bowl MVP Urbans my second year. Then the next year
they draft Death of Howard. You know what I said,
I ain't none. I'm gonna get my damp. You know,
because I listen. I hear people all the time like,
well man, you know you're friends. Yes, we are friends.
(23:39):
And if I'm really your friend, I'm gonna push you
to the highestness because let's people. I'm the youngest of
seven kids. I got four brothers. I am five and
a half years younger than my brother next to me.
You think I want I walked around like old in
my big ruther. No, no, no, every time I went
on the football field, I wanted to exceed anything they
ever thought about doing. And my brother Mike, who passed
(24:03):
away back when my rookie season, Michael Brian Mitch. I'm
Brian Keith. I say, bro, I'm the best. I'm the best.
Brian mitchro in this house. He's nah boy me. I
say go look at the stats for you know, because
it drives you.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Man.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Played against my cousin in high school and I all
I told him, I said, hey, you cornerback.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I said, I'm coming at you first player. I threw
tons down on it. I said, when we come back
out and I'm going at him again, my cousin. Because
the people that feel like, oh, I'm your relative, I'm
your teammate, I gotta take it easy. I ain't got
no time for that, will you? When you walk between
the white lines. I tell people I know, be hurt
(24:43):
all the time. I don't believe in peace treaties. I
believe in peace treaties, especially when when you we would
be at a trading cap and we had the real
trading camp practices the two days and it's hot and
this you are then patted pass if guys like, hey, man,
you trying a brother in law. Hey, let's take it easy, dude.
(25:06):
I don't believe in peace treaty. You better strap it up.
If anything, I'm gonna go harder at you because I know, yeah,
I need to be able to count on you. You
ain't getting me better and I'm not getting you better
if we take it easy and London.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think that's added to the excitement because we've seen
that in real time with these young guys. Right, Mikey
Santichel drafted last year, where we go get a trade amos.
Now Mikey Santasu's inside. Mikey Santichel's hitting everybody at training camp.
We're seeing him pop. People laid him out, They got
to get carried off the field. That's how motivated. Mikey
Sandersil is working out with Deebo Samuel, same thing. He's motivated.
Then you go to the officive side. Brandon Coleman, he said,
(25:40):
as soon as he saw Josh Connley drafted, I know
I'm going inside. But he embraced that role and he
used that to not only help himself but help Joss
Conley Jr.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
As well.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And as we talk about these guys fellas, we do
have a game Sunday. Well, having a lot of fun here,
but we do have a game Sunday. What's taking on
the new York Giants and London. I want your respective
on this because you came here later in your career.
Is there anything true like an NFC East rivalry game
when you get these NFC East player teams, right, Cowboys,
Philly Commanders, Giants.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Is there anything like those matchups when you're wearing that
berg up?
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Not? Not at all, Not at all. I was when
I was in Saint Louis. Our rival was the forty
nine Ers. I mean it was a rival, but it
wasn't to them. Same matter like when I got here
and Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Was the Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
When I came here and I played in that first
Cowboys game, and half our team was in the trading
room getting X raysed and half their team was in
the trading room geting X raysed. After the game, and
you know, coach Gibbs said, hey, we might not lose,
but they gonna be They're gonna be in the ice
tub afterwards. And it was like that against Philly against
(26:48):
the Giants. I actually hated the Giants board than I
hated Dallas really because they had a little arrogance about
themselves like we did. The Mighty New York Giants were
in New York, so those games. It didn't matter what
our records were, what the game's being played. It was
gonna be physical. It was going to be a test,
and you threw records out of the window.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Anybody could win and be We're gonna be there doing
game day and post game live.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We'll be there celebrating our gods. Santana moss Man.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
How ready are you just to be back in the fall,
right back doing all these things because you had a
very interesting offseason. B you got to talk to the team,
you came and helped teach different techniques and just give
that motivation. Man. I gotta imagine when a front office
allows these legends to be so close to the fold,
it makes it a little more personal and special for you.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Right man.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Anytime you go through a franchise like this and you
get these brotherhoods, this is not no friendship.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
This is brotherhood. Right.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I didn't play with London. I played against him, and
when he got here, I was a big fan of him.
I played with g This is brotherhood, man, And when
you got your little brothers coming along, you wanted to
even be good and you want to any like you're
seeing something You're like, if I could just help that
guy out. Some people don't want to be a part
of that could be afraid. NFL is a self preservation
(28:04):
lead and a lot of coaches feel like if I
gave somebody an idea and it worked, then they like
they failed.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
No fool. You allowed me to call Well Dad Quinn
came in here with extreme.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Confidence, he called, I said, coach, I'll be around and
whenever you need me.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And I bet I've coached from friendships with.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
A lot of the guys, and I try to do
what he did for me, when Ernest Byner did for me,
with Darren Green or Monk did for me.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
These guys didn't have to give me no advice, but
they did it. And the things they told me, to
be honest with you, they were telling me the wrong stuff.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I'd have been going wanted to be sitting the wrong
because I did exactly what they told me every damn
day to try to become the best I could. And
what it does, and now it makes you feel good
because when you have pride.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
In something, you don't want it to fall.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
And if it falls and you haven't been able to
get your influen what's on it, you feel like it's
partly partially your damn phone. Dude, I'm pride for here.
I go around this world and people like recing out
who you are. They're like, man, y'all team not that good.
And I was like embarrassed. And now when I go
places they want to talk. I'm me a drink. I'm
(29:17):
getting I'm getting free meals and drinks off of these seam.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Right now, folks were trying to fight us to show
and love.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
People want to fight me. I usually usually doing post
game shows, and the fans here I want to fight.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I don't be all argue with you, be a fan
of yet something be will sit and argue with you,
like let me tell you about my commanders. It felt
like this is a perfect segue to take a little
little break real quick and play a little game. Because Gary,
I don't know if you know this about your boy
loveing fletch it, but my guy likes to stand on business.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Do you know that about want to fletch?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You like to stand one? I know he's about his
business when he played the game.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, that's what's standing on it is this find out
about that talk about I'll take treaties. I'm scared over here.
I want to hear that from Big plus for check
this out.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So this game is from our amazing producer Caroline Suitor
and Jason as.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Well, and this will be I'll give you guys something.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
And you're either gonna stand on business saying that you
believe that that's gonna happen, or you're gonna sit this
one out right all right. Jaden Daniels is a top
five quarterback. Bemiss Jos, You standing on that when you
sit this one out.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I'm standing two feet straight up with sessing.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That ten toes down.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Baby, I'm gonna leave your first year what he did.
He's about to be right.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
There, amen, Gary, easy enough?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Right, okay, next on for you, my brother Jaden will
throw for thirty plus touchdowns?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Did it hit that markus rookie year? But will he
throw thirty plus this year? You standing on that? Forty forty?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Okay? See I love this. I love this game because
y'all confident. I love his confidence. All right, loney, you
got it. See we're gonna do We're gonna do the
defense for you.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
The defense, I said, let you forget neither.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
The defense will force more turnovers than last season, which
was seventeen. Washington in the bottom half of the league
in takeaways, tied for twentieth in the NFL, so they'll
force more turnovers than seventeen.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You standing on that? Oh heck, yeah, I'm standing all that.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Yeah, kick toes down, signs thirteen shoes all upsetting all that?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
And who if I to argue with that? I think
we all standing all that.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I think Commanders fans will stand on that as well.
And before we wrap up, fellas, because we got to
eat you know the vibes and here they playing the
slow jams.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
We got moves to make. It's definitely a vibe we
out here a d C prom Baby, it's.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Always a vibe at DC out here.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh boy, glad got it roll. Shout out to our
God Glenn.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But before we go, we do have a very very
special person to talk about, somebody that means a lot
to all of us, and that is mister A to
the nine Santana mass He'll be entering the Ring of
Fame along you three gentlemen, one a.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Few to get that honor.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
We will do that this Sunday at halftime against the
New York Giants. Before we end this show, can we
just talk about how much we love our guy, mister
Santana Massa. How special it'll be because being you're the
one that told him he was gonna beat that was
with you especially, is going to be to be able
to call out his name.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
And see his name up there forever.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Well, for me, it means the world because when Tanner
was at the Jets, I was a big fan of his.
Then he came here and I watched him work, and
he did everything that you want a guy to do
to be successful, whether the team was up and down,
Tantanna was putting it down. And when Ryan asked me
to to say it to him, dude, I got kind
(32:28):
of choked up. And then I was asked to be
able to be the person to actually announce his like
let's bring that damn Banner down. You know what, listen, man,
I have a foster brother, but Tanner for this, I
mean it's over still seeing that my little brother. Yeah,
(32:50):
Ram is proud of everything he accomplished anything, because what
I love about him he was great on the field,
but the dude's superb off the field. He does so
much for this community, which a lot of guys come
in here and they get something from the community and
they leave.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, he didn't leave.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
He stayed here and he's putting stuff back into it.
So I admire the hell out of him. So for
me to be a part of the dude, it makes
me more private than anything.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I mean, I'm always when you have you see great receivers, right,
I was a receiver, and you see other great receivers,
and you see how special Tanner truly is.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Like he is a guy that.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Doesn't brag about what he does, never has never has
drag about what he does whatsoever. He just shows you
on the field that he's going to be the best
guy out there. And even when you don't throw them
the rock enough, he's still taking.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It to the house.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
The fusion when you throw football that he still takes
it to the house.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
So he's one of the.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Guys that is just a special guy deathly deserves props
to be in the Ring of Fame. He's definitely one
of the best receivers in Commander's history, Resking history, Washington
football team history, whatever you want to call it. He
is one of the best. And he truly is a
guy that be Mitch, I'm mad that I don't get
to put him.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Mat I'll tell you this.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
When I found out that he was going there, I
felt like I was going there because I was so
happy for him. I played with Tanner for seven seasons
here and I watched him day in the day out.
He never he never carried himself. A lot of number
one receivers act a little like divas.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
No vist Gary Ricky did. They want they want the football,
and they.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
If they got a little nick a little broken down,
they're not gonna practice that town of practice. Every day
they complain about who was the quarterback. And he went
through some not great quarterbacks at times. No matter what
they were, he was asking to do, did his job.
And the humidity, humility that he carries himself with, like
(34:56):
you think, man, he just you can't help a beast
happier out of what he's about to receive. And you
just I'm glad that the franchise to do ownership is
giving him his flowers.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yes right now, amen, because.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Eight to the nine, mister cowboy killing, mister giants slayer.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
He deserves to be up there with his name and
he one hundred percent deserves it.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And I don't think there's anybody better to talk about
that than you three, because I know Tanner looks up
to all you guys in your own ways.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And for me, I didn't get to play with him.
I'm new I'm the new Statesman here.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
However, I've got to see how he handles being on
air and this new pivot of his career. And I
gotta imagine he's coming with the same intensity and drive
that he did playing because Tanna's gonna be the first
to him he say, Yo, I need that rundown when
we're talking about what we do not show, and to
see him take something that he doesn't have to be
super passionate about because he could just pull up and
be missed. Eight to nine, right, He don't really gotta try,
(35:48):
he's mister eight to the nine. But he tries, he cares,
and he always works so hard. And I'm so excited
to be a part of and see this next journey
for Tanne's. We talked about it earlier this week. This
is just the chapter for him.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
He still has so much more to do and accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
We y'all know he's going to and again, like London said,
just a guy that's very easy for us to root for.
A guy that we just want to see great things
happen to So shout out to mister eight to the nine,
and honestly shout out to y'all, three fellas, because I
think you're gonna cry a lot.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Me and Tanna. I mean you got him crying. I
was actually surprised to see a crowd.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I'm trying to get you, say me and Michell, Me.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
And Vivis had a pleasure of for zenning Tanna.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So we're gonna try our best to get our guy
emotional and just living in that moment because it's such.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
A big moment.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Tan is somebody that never celebrates himself, So we're gonna
make sure we celebrate mister eight to the nine, not
just today, not just this weekend, but all season long
because we're so happy to have him and he just
loves his commander's family more than anything. And before we go, fellas,
once we get ten in the Ring of Fame, got
a few more guys to get into the Hall of fame.
These three gentlemen right here, we're looking at to get
y'all in the Hall of Fame, and we're gonna support y'all, show.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Y'all that type of lovey.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Major numbers man, y'all got major numbers.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I know we yes, but I didn't realize us the
numbers that Gary put up until Recie.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I'm like, it's crazy crazy with two other crazy ain't
worthy receiver, crazy numbers like.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Let me tell you how many Super Bowls three or two?
Toughest guy I was seen in my life.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
That dude wasn't the biggest go on the field, but
he will go on the field compete with everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
He will people like I would, even the coach sometimes
that if you play like your player, you can talk to.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Me like that.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I got new follows there for you after that game.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
And fellas a case can be made for all three
of you guys to be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
So command his family.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
When you see my guys walking around, when you see
him here at d C Prime, when you see them
at the games, make sure.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You address them the way I address them.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Future Hall of Famer Brian Mitchell, future Hall of Famer
Gary Clark, the future Hall of Famer London Fletcher be us.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
That is what they deserve. That's what y'all earned. Brothers.
I just feel like a little kid in the canty.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
So I'm just sitting here with Suwimo Champions, about the
east of steak, about to drink good that this has
been so much fun, and remember we will be doing
this before every home game here at our home DC PROP.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Shout out to Glenn, Shout out to all of our
people at DC PROM.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Shout out to our producer Caroline, an excellent job.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Salute to Caroline.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Shout out to everybody in our Commanders family that makes
stuff like this happen. We're happy to be here for
London Fletcher, for Gary Clark, for Brian Mitchell, future Hall
of Famous.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I'm Brian Corba Junior. We'll see y'all next home game,
which is in what two weeks.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Maybe we're gonna be taking on the Raiders. We'll see
you in from here at De Bron. Baby, let's get
in maybe week one
Commanders Fan be welcome to Command Center, DC Prime of Moments.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We are here at DC Prime.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Now. If you've been sticking with us these last few years,
normally it's just me in one legend, but I'm very,
very fortunate to be sitting here with three legends, three
time champions. Man, I just feel all this greatness fellas
we outside one in the elements here, we got the
people out here. How y'all feeling this very first DC
Prime Moments? What she'll be doing before every home game
(00:33):
at DC Prime?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, man, I feel real good.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I've heard all kind of talk this off season, and
I'm sure these guys think like me. I get so
sick of hearing people sometimes that have not been through
that fire and don't understand what guys are going through.
And I'm just waiting to see these guys go back
out there because I'm sure they've heard some of the
noise and they want to prove people wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And with a guy leading you like JD five aspect
great things now, I mean, how good you Ben?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
You get so close, get so close to so close
to going to the show, and you don't play honestly,
you can't help it to be pissed off about it
and come back the next year and been putting in
the work and put it in the work and putting
the working.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I know that's the way.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
My first championship game I went to, I lost to
the freaking Giants. That carried me for the next year.
I mean literal, I cried every day for Lease for
three months after it, at least once a week. I'm
talking about breaking that boohoo, crying tears, tear drops right,
oh yeah, But it's all because you get that close
(01:37):
and you lose. I would have rather not have got
there and to begin with, but it did drive me
to come back the next year and kick that assi
the Giants.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
As I want to know this thought be why didn't
give us the bitbo the sunglasses?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
GB like that since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Be New, b C New, and then man, we like sunglasses.
I'll say this though, just to piggyback on what y'all saying,
to be like you said to come so close, get
it to the NFC Championship Game and come up. You know,
I'm sure not reach your goals because every year the
goal is to win the Super Bowl. This is a
(02:20):
new team and I love their attitude and how they
are approaching it, like, hey, last year is last year,
DQ talking about we're not living off.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Of last year.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We'll build on the pond that our expectations are hot.
We're gonna continue to build work every day. Jayden, you
mentioned him, his mentality, his mindset, the stupidest thing I hear.
You hear some guys talking about he might have a
sophomore slump. Those are guys that don't know him. They
haven't seen his work ethic and how he clears blocks
(02:52):
out the noise. We've all been around a lot of
guys who've had fame early, and you can tell when
the ego gets inflated.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's not him at all, not at all.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Command his family if you cannot tell already, which we
know because he are some of the most historic voices
we have in Washington. That was London Fletcher here with
London Fletcher, Gary Clark and Brian Mitchell again three Super
Bowl champions, and y'all mentioned this excitement that we have,
whether it's because of Jaden, whether it's because we made
it to the NFC's championship.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We have done so many things to make excited for
this year.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I feel like now that we're finally here be the
excitement is higher than I could have ever imagined.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You know what, The excitement is there because I think
we don't know and we played this game. The people
outside don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, And let's be real society. Now, you live off
of heighten you live off of what people think. You
live off of astronomical type ideas, because that's what social
media is all about. But as London stated about Jayden,
Jaden goes out there not caring about any TV, not
caring about what people are going to say about him.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He just trying to get better.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
And when you're best player, does that everybody else followed?
I said that about the Washington Capitol. If Alizoeveskin is
working hard in everybody coach don't have to worry about
anybody else has to work because you can't loaft. Then
so I look, man, I am. I'm thoroughly excited. You
got sophomore slump thing? The hell with that?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
C J.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Stroud played unbelievable last year. He lost his top two receivers.
They say, oh, the quarterback had a sophomore slump, and
you allow was terrible. If you thought you a second,
without your officsive line being good and your top two
receivers as a quarterback, you're not gonna look like you
did the year before.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But the boy was bowling. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I want to ask y'all to this because and I
played on Super Bowl team, but y'all played on Super
Bowl here, How were y'all able to perform.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
The next year? Like?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Okay, we wanted and still put it in the work
to maintain that level of success and not get you know, complacent.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I tell you what, Well, after all right, my first
Super Bowl, which is in nineteen eighty seven season, we
kind of sucked.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
The next year the Schaaluar. We won the Super Bowl
that year. But I'm saying, but the next year, you
come back. Yeah, we came back, but I mean different.
I well, first of all, I didn't throw me the ball.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Enough, So that's what it was. That's what it was.
What it was.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I didn't I was the third league receiver on the
team and catchers that year.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeoh, you know, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
For me, we came back and we got almost for
the NFIE Jumpionship in that next year. And the reason
is because that was a dude in our locker room,
who I thought was Superman when I got here. Mooney
Coleman six pounds thirty six, hitch Ways ran a four
or five forty, and every day after the game he say,
(05:49):
we oh, I know, we got to win the next game.
You didn't have a chance to get complacent. I worry
about anything. Coach Gibbs told us, if you're a seventy whatever,
you all, whatever your record is, that's how many days
to give. Y'all remember that we were seven and oh,
we're like, hell, we got.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Five seven days up.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We ended up getting seven days off, but they were
not consecutive and they were not all in that week. Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
So when you have that type of mindset where guys
are making you instantly forget, you know, I remember losing
a preseason game and they would like forget about it
because I was crying. I was the type of guys
I'm like Garrett, when I lost the game, I was
upset and we lost a preseason game out of pisted.
Ravens said, yo, dog, move on to the next one.
(06:32):
Then we won the game. I'll celebrated, he said, yoyo,
move on to that. We had leadership on it there
and that's the difference between me, probably even you and
these guys today. Miney Coleman been around forever, Daryl Green
had been around, and gear that got art. I got
leaders on my squad. I didn't have to come in
be one right now, guy first second year, he's a leader. Well,
(06:56):
I'll look at this and I tell you, yeah, I
listened to a lot of y'all show on the radio
lot we mentioned, and they talk about us being the
oldest team in the NFL. That's actually not a bad
thing because the older guys that we have playing our leader.
So you have a Bobby Bobby Wagner, he's been to
two Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Leader. You just added Von.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Miller won two Super Bowls, been a Super Bowl MVP,
Zach Hurtz won a Super Bowl. Some of the other
guys that I can't think of right off the off
the top of my head that the older guys who's
been in the trench has been in these wars. And
you talked about the leadership too. Hey, all right, last
year's last year. We're gonna hold you accountable and let's
(07:40):
work each and every day without saying is this. I
always hear people talking about old team, young team. One
thing I know for a fact in college, when you
have extravagant freshmen and leadership bound seniors, you win games. Yes,
if you got all freshmen, you ain't winning. You got
all seniors, you ain't winning. When I got in Washington,
(08:00):
we had guys that have been playing anywhere from twelve
to sixteen years. And then I rolled in and Garian
you about seven eight years at the time I rolled
in with Andre Collins is our first year. We brought
a youthfulness to this group that didn't allow us to
get off track. That football team was twenty six point
(08:21):
three or twenty six point four years old, the average
age of that team, and ran through everybody. Don't care
who you were, we ran through them. I believe you
have to have a delicate balance of old and new. Yeah,
you and that experience, and when you have that, you
win football games. You're not winning with all young and
all old. It ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Especially with the experience. Though the experience, there's nothing like it.
I tell you right now, I guarantee you, London, everybody
on here, we were much better our last year in
the league. Our stats may maybe didn't show it, but
it was much better. Our last year in the league
than we were our first year in the league because
we had learned so much for time. That's the most
important part, is the education that you get going again.
(09:04):
I don't need to run four three. I realized that
because there's an angle, Matt, it's called back. Somebody come
to angle. They can't catch me unless I'm making miss
Man's face. How long as I maintain my quickness at
my age, I'm going to win. I was much better
at my I played Miami my last year, worst year
(09:25):
reception wise ever, because they ain't throw me the rock
in terms of getting open the best year at it.
I'm talking about when you looking at space, I'm here,
the defenders there, that's the space because I learned so
much over time. So when you got age on your team.
But people don't realize this, that's a good thing. Terry McLaurin,
First of all, he's done nothing but this. As it
(09:47):
gets older, nothing but distance it gets to They was
worrying about him being the thirties thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
What's that matter?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Man? I played I was thirty eight and a half
years old.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm talking when I'm finished, I was talking like thirty
two to thirty three.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
But but to your point, though, Hell, I had my
best season. I led the National Football League at tackles
at thirty six years old.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I'm talking about what I'm talking about, talking.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
About that experience. I remember when Matt Millan came here.
Matt Millon was like, y'all gonna get some older running
backs because I can't check these. When the game came around,
Matt was the slowest lineback I haven't seen in my life.
Made every damn play why because he knew what was
(10:36):
going on. You watched, Bobby, It's like you used to
do somebody going motion, you know, based off of that
that formation and that motion where they're going, and you
start creeping and then you're waiting on the We call
that a bility of live. You're live based on your ability.
But I watched people come in who they say, all,
this guy runs a four or four, but he had
(10:57):
no experience.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Cole Hulk say his name. He ran out of position.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And he had to run fast because he did not
know where to go. So when you have that type
of thing, when you have experience, it don't take much.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Bro. And I'm here with three very experienced guys. I
asked one question and.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
For minutes is a back of chill.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Hey man, listen, this is the best thing I did
out there. I'm excited to eat here with Brian excited.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, I'm excited too, man, And I'm so happy to
be here with Brian Mitchell, Gary Clark and London Fletcher.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Now we're going to talk about Jayden Daniels in a
little bit. We're gonna play a little game called standing
on business.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I know my boy London Fletcher likes to staying on business,
and we're going to talk about one of our favorite
Washington legends that is going to be entering.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
The Ring of Fame.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But I want to stay on this super Bowl conversation
because all three of you guys have been part of
Super Bowl team.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So I'm multiple When did you know, and each of
you this might be different.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
When did y'all know in that locker room within it
that we have something special that we are a super
Bowl team? Did it happen instantly? Did it happen when
you guys made it to the Super Bowl? Was there
a moment during the season where you said, you know what,
you got something special?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
When Coach Gibbs, we will try to downplay how good
we were we knew how good we were. Man, I
remember that that we were at ten and six that
year first year I got here. Then that next year,
even in training, count like, bro, this thing is special.
And then coach didn't like this. Playboy made us. Playboy
put us as a favorite to win the Super Bowl.
(12:23):
Coach Gibs gonna look where you get your sauce from
right right, and then when you sit over here there
like when you're seven and oh you're one to o
two and oh seven, and oh now you're to eleven
and oh we stumbled lost the game.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
We went to fourteen and one. He took us. He said,
I'm gonna start, I'm I'm gonna view this like a
preseason game.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
He let you put us, put the starters in in
the first beginning of the game, pulled them out, lost
to the Eagles, and then we went on in the
super Bowl, I mean the playoffs run. We scored twenty seven,
we scored another but forty one. We beat Detroit forty.
We had beat them forty five zero earlier in the season. Wow,
in the playoffs. Listen, I was talking about the Super Bowl,
(13:08):
and as I said earlier, number fifty one money came
and told me, we ain't there yet. Keep your mind
focused on the process. And I listen, I think, I'm
I'm a I'm a student. My dad taught me a lot,
and I used to always feel this team is special,
but I couldn't say because I didn't want to deal
with money yet.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Twenty five.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I had to be you yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I didn't say it publicly, but I sure said it
in the locker room, and he heard me.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Tell me, hey, I'll get ahead of yourself, right Gary,
what about you?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Man?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Well, I mean with the with the eighty seven team,
I didn't really realize it until we hit the playoffs.
Once we hit the playoffs, I was like, Okay, we
went away, kick the team's butt away and then come
home and get got to play the championship at home.
That was special. But the ninety one team, by game six,
I was like, I was like, if we lose this
(14:05):
say it was like that that's good job, because no,
because I mean the defense was just shutting people down.
But we're just going like thirty plus points a game,
you know, Like yeah, like and that's early in the season.
We had three or four shutouts, you know, So I
mean there's just it was just you just had a
feeling like we never worried what the score was. Even
(14:29):
the game that we lost, we wouldn't worry what the score.
We were like, oh we got this, Like we never
were never like you know some people we got no.
It was like, oh we got this. We never we
never worried about what the score because we knew typically
we could score. We wanted to score because typically a
defense gold good. If you come up and you press us,
(14:49):
you know we're gonna go phase on them. We're gonna
go do you play us money? Man, that's just waste
of time, that's that's that's just stupidity on your part.
And then if you shut us down a running game,
go be on point. We had every facet of offer,
and the defense was just shutting everybody down. They was
just shutting them down. Did it affect the way you
played on the field.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
We're gonna get to you let in a second, but
having that confidence, knowing when you get there like oh yeah, man,
this is it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Did that affect how you played on the field.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I mean, I think especially like being mentioned had confidence
since he was a rookie, so the confident he never
had a problem with confidence whatsoever. But I think as
you get through the years, you start to know how
good of a player you are, and then you do
get confident in yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
And then I was the guy that grew up.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
My dad didn't want me to talk trash anybody, but
if they started with me, then I could talk trash back.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He allowed me to talk trash back.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
So I like, I mean, I like being that guy
who could be in the Super Bowl and tell you
what right I'm going to run and tell you to
stop each.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Corner and stop it.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
So what I love about that too because I could
be lying though, so that ruings confusion and the defensive
backside right away and be like he lined telling that
you whatn't gonna do? But there's nothing better when you're
telling the truth and you can just come back and
told you so.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Man. Man, I wish I had experienced Super Bowl here
in Washington. That's that's one of the regrets I would
I had, Like I wanted to be able to have
these guys proud of us to restore the glory. But
I won my Super Bowl in Saint Louis and played
in another, and so I played in two in Saint
Louis one one lost one.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
The ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
We get up to a six and no start, and
we knew we were good, but we weren't thinking we
were super Bowl team. We lose two in a row,
so we six and two and it's like, ah, you know,
the same old sorry Rams.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
We were four and twelve a year before.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
But then we get get on another run, and I
would say probably by week thirteen, week fourteen, we were like, like,
we're the real deal. And it's funny that you mentioned
how coach Gibbs treated that final game in the ninety
one season we had we played the Eagles Y two
K year. Remember everybody was scared about the whole what
(17:07):
was gonna happen with the world doing. Once up, New
Year's turns over, we go to Philly, we have a
New Year's Eve party the night before the game day.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It was two nights before the game. We kick it
played the starter is like the first half. We lose
that game. We were thirteen to two going into the game.
Lose that game to the Eagles, but we.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Had home field advantage and at that point we knew
nobody was gonna beat us but us, especially in that down.
So once once we locked up home field advantage, we
knew we were going to the Super Bowl and it
was the same year, same thing in two thousand and
one when we went, we went fourteen and two. We
played be mitches Philadelphia Eagles team in the NFC Championship game.
(17:51):
They were a good team, but we didn't feel like
they could beat us, and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Y'all didn't want to kick it to We ain't stupid now.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Trying to win the game, and fellas is crazy because
we haven't even talked about our game against the Giants yet,
and it's been a lot of Super Bowl conversation.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
But I think it's for good reason.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I think fans look around, I think former players look
around and say, Okay, it's just starting to look real familiar,
starting to feel like.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The good old days. And it looks it feels as
if we're living in the good old days now.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And a lot of that has to do with quarterback
Jad and Daniels historic rookie season now heading into year two.
All of you guys have been there where y'all are rookies,
but now y'all ain't rookies no more. Y'all don't get
that excuse anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's time to be vetts. Jaden's in that position. How
do you expect him to fare against the New York Giants?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Man, Listen, I don't question or doubt anything about jayde
Daniels because I'll be honest with you. I watch London play.
I watched Gary play, and I know how I played.
And I think you got three of the most competitive
dudes in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Ever saw right. I don't know if we work harder
than that. Dude. I wasn't getting there.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
At five.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
The five thirty PM, but I don't know anybody that
puts into it.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Telling Gary, would you say, gay five and a half,
I'm up at five thirty am?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Amen, five and five thirty eight?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Running dad? How he had already been working out already.
When when I get that five there, I'm telling you
I'm five and a half. You're doing that five and
a half.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Your quarterbacks coming at four.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
When you got a little older, you.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You saying I'm the same guy. The defender Ricky Sanders.
When I saw how good he was as a player,
I saw how good Ricky.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Was of in front of him.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
That came his roommate.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
When Ricky went to sleep, I wouldn't train time, know
how good he was hold on, so he wouldn't work
it out because he wanted to be working out.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
If Ricky Sanders came here, I'm just dripping that way.
I'm just driving.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
But seriously, because somebody's always working out and somebody always
on the.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I really believe this team they hit the jack.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Probably they got him man, because we always hear about
Jayden being there, Lucas there, sometimes Mikey is also there,
so yeah, so Bobby's there. They have free and then Bobby,
the old savvy vent. Every time Jayden seems to be
getting a little bit too much praise, Bobby comes set
(20:20):
him down.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
They have the right dynamic for this football team. Brother,
It's unbelievable. I love it.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I love it, and I know things have to work out, property,
health has to be and all that stuff, but you
cannot say they're not doing what needs to be done
to get where they want to go.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
And I believe this.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I think great players, you don't have a sophomore Jenks.
You're a great player. Great players are great, you know
like you do. None of know how the sophomore jinks,
we didn't have any of that. I'm talking about great
players that you hear, your your your stars on your team.
They don't have that jinks. So some players players have it.
But if you're right, you're great. And he's a great player.
(21:01):
I don't think he's going I think he's gonna do
even more spectacul than he did last year. Yeah, because
he got also he got great receivers as well, the
weapons around. I mean Terry, Terry Mack. He a beast,
He's a beast. Garry before we move on.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Because I want I want to play this little game
that I'll produce. It may for us. I think it'll
be fun.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
When you mentioned you saw a guy like Ricky Sanders
and him waking up and his workouts forced you to
be better. So what if your quarterbacks coming in at
three thirty four am? Does that make you as a player, say,
you know what I need to be in at three am?
I need to be in a three thirty.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I think you shouldn't need anybody to make you want
to do what you know you need to do. I
mean that's just me, Like, I'm going to do whatever's
going to make me the best player. So if I
see somebody who I think is outperforming me, I'm gonna
change my diet right away, like right away.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Ricky Sanders just naturally gifted. He you shit was it
was just naturally gifted.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
He didn't work out. I saw what he did. He
didn't have to.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I saw him fall fat on his face and still
running four or five. Fall fat on his face, run
a four or five. See No, it really was probably
more like a four to two quite honestly, so I
know how good it was. But for me, I was
like I think all great players want to be the
very best at their position, period. They just do it.
(22:23):
I love Art, I love Ricky, but I still wanted
to be better than both of them. Not saying that
I was, but I wanted to be better than both
of them. And I drove myself so I could feel
like I was better than both of them. I mean
that's what That's what I did, and that's what they did.
That's what made us so good as a as a
threesome and made uself good because we pushed one another.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I'm sure this guy did the same thing too.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
It makes you better, you know, so you kind of
hope that you have those things like I'm hoping that
people makes Terry have been better and Terry makes people better.
I'm hoping that that happens because at the end of
the day, you need somebody to push you. Once you
get comfortable, your game starts.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
To go down. Absolutely once you come comfortable your game.
Ought to do this, but they could have drafted the
seventh seventh round live backup. I'm like they try to
replace exactly. They drafted.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
The Heis and Trophy winner, and they drafted a Rose
Bowl MVP Urbans my second year. Then the next year
they draft Death of Howard. You know what I said,
I ain't none. I'm gonna get my damp. You know,
because I listen. I hear people all the time like,
well man, you know you're friends. Yes, we are friends.
(23:39):
And if I'm really your friend, I'm gonna push you
to the highestness because let's people. I'm the youngest of
seven kids. I got four brothers. I am five and
a half years younger than my brother next to me.
You think I want I walked around like old in
my big ruther. No, no, no, every time I went
on the football field, I wanted to exceed anything they
ever thought about doing. And my brother Mike, who passed
(24:03):
away back when my rookie season, Michael Brian Mitch. I'm
Brian Keith. I say, bro, I'm the best. I'm the best.
Brian mitchro in this house. He's nah boy me. I
say go look at the stats for you know, because
it drives you.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Man.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Played against my cousin in high school and I all
I told him, I said, hey, you cornerback.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I said, I'm coming at you first player. I threw
tons down on it. I said, when we come back
out and I'm going at him again, my cousin. Because
the people that feel like, oh, I'm your relative, I'm
your teammate, I gotta take it easy. I ain't got
no time for that, will you? When you walk between
the white lines. I tell people I know, be hurt
(24:43):
all the time. I don't believe in peace treaties. I
believe in peace treaties, especially when when you we would
be at a trading cap and we had the real
trading camp practices the two days and it's hot and
this you are then patted pass if guys like, hey, man,
you trying a brother in law. Hey, let's take it easy, dude.
(25:06):
I don't believe in peace treaty. You better strap it up.
If anything, I'm gonna go harder at you because I know, yeah,
I need to be able to count on you. You
ain't getting me better and I'm not getting you better
if we take it easy and London.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think that's added to the excitement because we've seen
that in real time with these young guys. Right, Mikey
Santichel drafted last year, where we go get a trade amos.
Now Mikey Santasu's inside. Mikey Santichel's hitting everybody at training camp.
We're seeing him pop. People laid him out, They got
to get carried off the field. That's how motivated. Mikey
Sandersil is working out with Deebo Samuel, same thing. He's motivated.
Then you go to the officive side. Brandon Coleman, he said,
(25:40):
as soon as he saw Josh Connley drafted, I know
I'm going inside. But he embraced that role and he
used that to not only help himself but help Joss
Conley Jr.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
As well.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And as we talk about these guys fellas, we do
have a game Sunday. Well, having a lot of fun here,
but we do have a game Sunday. What's taking on
the new York Giants and London. I want your respective
on this because you came here later in your career.
Is there anything true like an NFC East rivalry game
when you get these NFC East player teams, right, Cowboys,
Philly Commanders, Giants.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Is there anything like those matchups when you're wearing that
berg up?
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Not? Not at all, Not at all. I was when
I was in Saint Louis. Our rival was the forty
nine Ers. I mean it was a rival, but it
wasn't to them. Same matter like when I got here
and Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Was the Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
When I came here and I played in that first
Cowboys game, and half our team was in the trading
room getting X raysed and half their team was in
the trading room geting X raysed. After the game, and
you know, coach Gibbs said, hey, we might not lose,
but they gonna be They're gonna be in the ice
tub afterwards. And it was like that against Philly against
(26:48):
the Giants. I actually hated the Giants board than I
hated Dallas really because they had a little arrogance about
themselves like we did. The Mighty New York Giants were
in New York, so those games. It didn't matter what
our records were, what the game's being played. It was
gonna be physical. It was going to be a test,
and you threw records out of the window.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Anybody could win and be We're gonna be there doing
game day and post game live.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We'll be there celebrating our gods. Santana moss Man.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
How ready are you just to be back in the fall,
right back doing all these things because you had a
very interesting offseason. B you got to talk to the team,
you came and helped teach different techniques and just give
that motivation. Man. I gotta imagine when a front office
allows these legends to be so close to the fold,
it makes it a little more personal and special for you.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Right man.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Anytime you go through a franchise like this and you
get these brotherhoods, this is not no friendship.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
This is brotherhood. Right.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I didn't play with London. I played against him, and
when he got here, I was a big fan of him.
I played with g This is brotherhood, man, And when
you got your little brothers coming along, you wanted to
even be good and you want to any like you're
seeing something You're like, if I could just help that
guy out. Some people don't want to be a part
of that could be afraid. NFL is a self preservation
(28:04):
lead and a lot of coaches feel like if I
gave somebody an idea and it worked, then they like
they failed.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
No fool. You allowed me to call Well Dad Quinn
came in here with extreme.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Confidence, he called, I said, coach, I'll be around and
whenever you need me.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And I bet I've coached from friendships with.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
A lot of the guys, and I try to do
what he did for me, when Ernest Byner did for me,
with Darren Green or Monk did for me.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
These guys didn't have to give me no advice, but
they did it. And the things they told me, to
be honest with you, they were telling me the wrong stuff.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I'd have been going wanted to be sitting the wrong
because I did exactly what they told me every damn
day to try to become the best I could. And
what it does, and now it makes you feel good
because when you have pride.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
In something, you don't want it to fall.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
And if it falls and you haven't been able to
get your influen what's on it, you feel like it's
partly partially your damn phone. Dude, I'm pride for here.
I go around this world and people like recing out
who you are. They're like, man, y'all team not that good.
And I was like embarrassed. And now when I go
places they want to talk. I'm me a drink. I'm
(29:17):
getting I'm getting free meals and drinks off of these seam.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Right now, folks were trying to fight us to show
and love.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
People want to fight me. I usually usually doing post
game shows, and the fans here I want to fight.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I don't be all argue with you, be a fan
of yet something be will sit and argue with you,
like let me tell you about my commanders. It felt
like this is a perfect segue to take a little
little break real quick and play a little game. Because Gary,
I don't know if you know this about your boy
loveing fletch it, but my guy likes to stand on business.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Do you know that about want to fletch?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You like to stand one? I know he's about his
business when he played the game.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, that's what's standing on it is this find out
about that talk about I'll take treaties. I'm scared over here.
I want to hear that from Big plus for check
this out.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So this game is from our amazing producer Caroline Suitor
and Jason as.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Well, and this will be I'll give you guys something.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
And you're either gonna stand on business saying that you
believe that that's gonna happen, or you're gonna sit this
one out right all right. Jaden Daniels is a top
five quarterback. Bemiss Jos, You standing on that when you
sit this one out.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I'm standing two feet straight up with sessing.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That ten toes down.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Baby, I'm gonna leave your first year what he did.
He's about to be right.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
There, amen, Gary, easy enough?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Right, okay, next on for you, my brother Jaden will
throw for thirty plus touchdowns?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Did it hit that markus rookie year? But will he
throw thirty plus this year? You standing on that? Forty forty?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Okay? See I love this. I love this game because
y'all confident. I love his confidence. All right, loney, you
got it. See we're gonna do We're gonna do the
defense for you.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
The defense, I said, let you forget neither.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
The defense will force more turnovers than last season, which
was seventeen. Washington in the bottom half of the league
in takeaways, tied for twentieth in the NFL, so they'll
force more turnovers than seventeen.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You standing on that? Oh heck, yeah, I'm standing all that.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Yeah, kick toes down, signs thirteen shoes all upsetting all that?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
And who if I to argue with that? I think
we all standing all that.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I think Commanders fans will stand on that as well.
And before we wrap up, fellas, because we got to
eat you know the vibes and here they playing the
slow jams.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
We got moves to make. It's definitely a vibe we
out here a d C prom Baby, it's.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Always a vibe at DC out here.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh boy, glad got it roll. Shout out to our
God Glenn.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But before we go, we do have a very very
special person to talk about, somebody that means a lot
to all of us, and that is mister A to
the nine Santana mass He'll be entering the Ring of
Fame along you three gentlemen, one a.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Few to get that honor.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
We will do that this Sunday at halftime against the
New York Giants. Before we end this show, can we
just talk about how much we love our guy, mister
Santana Massa. How special it'll be because being you're the
one that told him he was gonna beat that was
with you especially, is going to be to be able
to call out his name.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
And see his name up there forever.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Well, for me, it means the world because when Tanner
was at the Jets, I was a big fan of his.
Then he came here and I watched him work, and
he did everything that you want a guy to do
to be successful, whether the team was up and down,
Tantanna was putting it down. And when Ryan asked me
to to say it to him, dude, I got kind
(32:28):
of choked up. And then I was asked to be
able to be the person to actually announce his like
let's bring that damn Banner down. You know what, listen, man,
I have a foster brother, but Tanner for this, I
mean it's over still seeing that my little brother. Yeah,
(32:50):
Ram is proud of everything he accomplished anything, because what
I love about him he was great on the field,
but the dude's superb off the field. He does so
much for this community, which a lot of guys come
in here and they get something from the community and
they leave.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, he didn't leave.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
He stayed here and he's putting stuff back into it.
So I admire the hell out of him. So for
me to be a part of the dude, it makes
me more private than anything.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I mean, I'm always when you have you see great receivers, right,
I was a receiver, and you see other great receivers,
and you see how special Tanner truly is.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Like he is a guy that.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Doesn't brag about what he does, never has never has
drag about what he does whatsoever. He just shows you
on the field that he's going to be the best
guy out there. And even when you don't throw them
the rock enough, he's still taking.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It to the house.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
The fusion when you throw football that he still takes
it to the house.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
So he's one of the.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Guys that is just a special guy deathly deserves props
to be in the Ring of Fame. He's definitely one
of the best receivers in Commander's history, Resking history, Washington
football team history, whatever you want to call it. He
is one of the best. And he truly is a
guy that be Mitch, I'm mad that I don't get
to put him.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Mat I'll tell you this.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
When I found out that he was going there, I
felt like I was going there because I was so
happy for him. I played with Tanner for seven seasons
here and I watched him day in the day out.
He never he never carried himself. A lot of number
one receivers act a little like divas.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
No vist Gary Ricky did. They want they want the football,
and they.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
If they got a little nick a little broken down,
they're not gonna practice that town of practice. Every day
they complain about who was the quarterback. And he went
through some not great quarterbacks at times. No matter what
they were, he was asking to do, did his job.
And the humidity, humility that he carries himself with, like
(34:56):
you think, man, he just you can't help a beast
happier out of what he's about to receive. And you
just I'm glad that the franchise to do ownership is
giving him his flowers.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yes right now, amen, because.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Eight to the nine, mister cowboy killing, mister giants slayer.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
He deserves to be up there with his name and
he one hundred percent deserves it.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And I don't think there's anybody better to talk about
that than you three, because I know Tanner looks up
to all you guys in your own ways.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And for me, I didn't get to play with him.
I'm new I'm the new Statesman here.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
However, I've got to see how he handles being on
air and this new pivot of his career. And I
gotta imagine he's coming with the same intensity and drive
that he did playing because Tanna's gonna be the first
to him he say, Yo, I need that rundown when
we're talking about what we do not show, and to
see him take something that he doesn't have to be
super passionate about because he could just pull up and
be missed. Eight to nine, right, He don't really gotta try,
(35:48):
he's mister eight to the nine. But he tries, he cares,
and he always works so hard. And I'm so excited
to be a part of and see this next journey
for Tanne's. We talked about it earlier this week. This
is just the chapter for him.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
He still has so much more to do and accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
We y'all know he's going to and again, like London said,
just a guy that's very easy for us to root for.
A guy that we just want to see great things
happen to So shout out to mister eight to the nine,
and honestly shout out to y'all, three fellas, because I
think you're gonna cry a lot.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Me and Tanna. I mean you got him crying. I
was actually surprised to see a crowd.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I'm trying to get you, say me and Michell, Me.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
And Vivis had a pleasure of for zenning Tanna.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So we're gonna try our best to get our guy
emotional and just living in that moment because it's such.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
A big moment.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Tan is somebody that never celebrates himself, So we're gonna
make sure we celebrate mister eight to the nine, not
just today, not just this weekend, but all season long
because we're so happy to have him and he just
loves his commander's family more than anything. And before we go, fellas,
once we get ten in the Ring of Fame, got
a few more guys to get into the Hall of fame.
These three gentlemen right here, we're looking at to get
y'all in the Hall of Fame, and we're gonna support y'all, show.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Y'all that type of lovey.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Major numbers man, y'all got major numbers.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I know we yes, but I didn't realize us the
numbers that Gary put up until Recie.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I'm like, it's crazy crazy with two other crazy ain't
worthy receiver, crazy numbers like.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Let me tell you how many Super Bowls three or two?
Toughest guy I was seen in my life.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
That dude wasn't the biggest go on the field, but
he will go on the field compete with everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
He will people like I would, even the coach sometimes
that if you play like your player, you can talk to.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Me like that.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I got new follows there for you after that game.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
And fellas a case can be made for all three
of you guys to be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
So command his family.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
When you see my guys walking around, when you see
him here at d C Prime, when you see them
at the games, make sure.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You address them the way I address them.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Future Hall of Famer Brian Mitchell, future Hall of Famer
Gary Clark, the future Hall of Famer London Fletcher be us.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
That is what they deserve. That's what y'all earned. Brothers.
I just feel like a little kid in the canty.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
So I'm just sitting here with Suwimo Champions, about the
east of steak, about to drink good that this has
been so much fun, and remember we will be doing
this before every home game here at our home DC PROP.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Shout out to Glenn, Shout out to all of our
people at DC PROM.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Shout out to our producer Caroline, an excellent job.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Salute to Caroline.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Shout out to everybody in our Commanders family that makes
stuff like this happen. We're happy to be here for
London Fletcher, for Gary Clark, for Brian Mitchell, future Hall
of Famous.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I'm Brian Corba Junior. We'll see y'all next home game,
which is in what two weeks.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Maybe we're gonna be taking on the Raiders. We'll see
you in from here at De Bron. Baby, let's get
in maybe week one
Popular Podcasts
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
Gregg Rosenthal and a rotating crew of elite NFL Media co-hosts, including Patrick Claybon, Colleen Wolfe, Steve Wyche, Nick Shook and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic get you caught up daily on all the NFL news and analysis you need to be smarter and funnier than your friends.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com