We have a QB to protect with Jayden Daniels now, but have the Commanders done enough to protect the franchise QB?
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00:00The NFL Draft now nine days away.
00:02We started by talking about Shador Sanders.
00:04Depends where you look.
00:05Some people have him going second and third overall.
00:07Others saying they're here and he's going to fall out of the first round.
00:10Pretty amazing as we're a little over a week out for one of the faces of this class.
00:16Our buddy Guy Lorian tweeted us and said,
00:19I don't particularly care about what's going on with Shador Sanders.
00:23I just came here to say, man, is it nice to not have to worry about this.
00:27He said to not have my team playing a part in it.
00:31It's true.
00:32The commanders are out of the needing a quarterback bucket.
00:35So whether he's good or not, or a pain, or you're dealing with Dion or you're not,
00:40it's not Washington's problem.
00:41There are no questions.
00:42It's no, can Carson Wentz be okay?
00:44This guy that's unproven, Sam Howell, is that going to work out?
00:47What about Heineke?
00:48Those stupid questions, those big wastes of time are over.
00:53We have one.
00:54Sorry.
00:54Let's get back to the regular business of trying to build a football team.
00:57Which is hard enough as it is.
00:59Larry is in La Plata on Grant and Danny.
01:02What's up, Larry?
01:04Hey, man.
01:04The question is, can he play?
01:08Yeah, he can play.
01:09But at the same time, you got to remember, we dealt with the manning.
01:12So you got to deal with the sand.
01:13I mean, it just is what it is.
01:15The guy, his father's a Hall of Fame player, if not one of the best players in the game of football.
01:22So you have to take it for what it is.
01:24And I mean, he's clear like this.
01:27He's able, his father should be able to criticize or not criticize the system because he played in the system.
01:37Well, we'll disagree there.
01:38I mean, yeah, he can do whatever he wants.
01:40But whether I want to deal with that as a person involved on the coaching staff is a different situation.
01:46I mean, by that standard, are you critiquing the Little League coach with every move they make because you played baseball in high school?
01:52Probably not.
01:54That's funny because I do.
01:57Yeah.
01:57So we will just.
01:58Appreciate you there.
01:59Live our lives a little differently.
02:00So the.
02:01Yeah.
02:01I know what you're saying.
02:03Like if the point is, it was ridiculous when Eli Manning made that pouty face and refused to go to San Diego and insisted on a draft day trade to New York or whatever.
02:10Yeah, that was ridiculous.
02:11I held it against him his whole career.
02:13I still think it was absurd to do that, but whatever.
02:16So if that's the point, then I guess.
02:19I don't know the.
02:21From an organizational perspective, from a team's perspective, if Sanders was so great, if he was if he was like Peyton Manning, Peyton Manning, or if he was I don't know, you could you could pick your number.
02:31Your one one guy, if he was Caleb Williams, or if he was Andrew Luck, or if he was, you know, name that Trevor Lawrence, which was that pedigree, you'd go to the caller's point.
02:39I don't give a damn what his dad says or doesn't say 100.
02:41We will deal with it.
02:42This is a me, by the way, who I just I do not do the Deion Sanders act like I'm not calling you coach prime.
02:50You know that that's just I'm not playing whatever the game is.
02:54I think he's an amazing personality.
02:57He was an unbelievable player, one of the greatest of my lifetime, and I actually saw a video circulating with him helping one of his players and talking about a pitch that he's got coming up in school.
03:07So we had him give it to the team.
03:09I think he does some real good, too, but there's also so much baggage and so many of the I'm bringing Louie and you can all get out of here.
03:16It's in a sense, it's like exploitative of all of the things I hate about college sports now is like how he's running the program and he's not alone in this.
03:25He's just one of the ringleaders in college sports getting worse and worse.
03:29But I digress for me.
03:31It's just about the celebrity distraction part of it.
03:34I don't want to deal with it.
03:35Now, when he comes into the Manning's like Arch Manning's going to be coming out next year.
03:39If Peyton Manning is as much of a attention seeking opinion giving dad as Deion Sanders has proven to be, then I would probably be out on that, too.
03:54But he's not like, you know, and by the way, I understand that that's not his kid.
04:00It's Cooper's kid and he's the uncle.
04:02But my point is, I don't view him as that.
04:05He occasionally gets asked about him.
04:06He gives an opinion.
04:08Maybe it's a little different because Deion's the coach.
04:10But I think people that have followed Arch Manning versus Deion, they're both kind of famous for being famous.
04:16Shador or whatever.
04:17Shador, again, I'm team Shador Sanders as a player.
04:20I actually think he gets undervalued.
04:21I think I would take him in the top ten, probably.
04:24I would, too, if I could have a heart-to-heart where I said, I need you to run my entire building, man.
04:32And that's the part I just don't know.
04:33I've never sat down and talked with him.
04:35Can he be the CEO?
04:37I don't know.
04:38Can you not be doing a TV show with your dad where you're calling out your wide receiver from Sunday's game because he dropped two passes?
04:45I don't know about that.
04:46But I don't think Peyton, for all of his media ventures, is doing that kind of thing.
04:51I don't think the comp is good.
04:53Yeah, from the Manning cast on Monday night, after week one, they're shredding whoever takes Arch and calling their offensive schemes simplistic and questioning this, that, and the other thing.
05:03We could have that same conversation.
05:05I just think it's a different thing.
05:06Everything's a building up and positive.
05:08And they do their little jokes.
05:10Some of them are not that funny, but they wear their little sweater vests.
05:13It's, it's, there's not anything divisive about it.
05:15You know what I mean?
05:16It's kind of this, like, feel good.
05:18Everyone's here to be happy.
05:19You're not going there because they're going to be crushing anybody.
05:22And I just, I don't know if that's how it's always going to be with Dion.
05:27I don't remember Peyton Manning taking anything that the teams that his nephew's been on or Eli's on to task for play call.
05:37You know what I'm saying?
05:38It's just, it's not the character.
05:40His whole shtick is like Cal Ripken Jr., the perfect guy, the, I've got a team of PR people, nine people around me working all the time to make sure that my flaws, because everyone's got them, don't get out.
05:51See what I'm saying?
05:52Yeah.
05:53And, and, you know, the whole live in my truth loudly thing is not really what he's about.
05:57And just that ability to play the game would make me feel a little more comfortable with someone in his family being on my roster.
06:05But I just can't wait to see what happens in nine days.
06:09It is fascinating.
06:10If you're telling me he goes third to the Giants or he doesn't get drafted in the first round, I'll tell you he goes third to the Giants.
06:16Because, again, I think him falling out of the first round would be a joke.
06:20I just don't see that.
06:22I don't, like, he's a first-round quarterback.
06:24And to the caller's point, someone's going to say, whatever the distraction, whatever it is, that's worth it to us.
06:29Because we're, you want to call it desperate enough, or this is such an important position and that guy can spin it.
06:35There's a lot of, there's a lot to like in that skill set.
06:37He's going either to New Orleans at nine.
06:40I still think Pittsburgh might trade up to get him to prevent that from happening.
06:42But to me, he's going in the top ten somewhere.
06:44I do wonder if he'll ever stop taking so many sacks, because I do just think he is a huge-bodied, cinderblock-footed, like, stand there, take on contact, make big boy throws.
06:55I just think it's always going to be part of it.
06:57And when you do what he did in college in terms of the sacks, we talked P2S percentage a lot last year.
07:02It doesn't normally change a ton, and he doesn't have the Jaden Daniels ability to run out of the pocket or to, you know, he'll leave some.
07:10But he's mostly what I want, which is a pocket passer.
07:14But you've got to get the ball out quicker than he has in his career.
07:18But just so many reports, different directions, pretty crazy to see.
07:22All right, on the offensive line for the commanders, you heard the clip from Adam Peters coming into the segment.
07:25I mentioned this to you yesterday.
07:28Washington ranks eighth among how much teams are spending on their O-lines right now for the 2025 season.
07:35Only the Panthers at $95 million, the Chiefs at $81-plus million, and then the Giants, Bears, Vikings, Lions, and Broncos are spending more than Washington.
07:46And, in fact, the commanders are on the verge of the top five.
07:49They've spent $61 million on the line.
07:51The team at five is the Vikings at $64 million, at four is the Bears at $66 million, so they're kind of in that range.
07:58There's only two teams that have made a substantially more obvious commitment to the O-line, and that's the Panthers and the Chiefs,
08:05who have young quarterback Bryce Young and then the guy of all the guys that you want to protect in Patrick Mahomes,
08:11Kansas City coming off of a Super Bowl loss because of their line, and they're not being able to protect, essentially.
08:17But I bring this up to say, have they done enough for you guys?
08:20Now, that was one of the big talking points for the fan base going into the offseason was you've got to make this offensive line better.
08:26Well, they went out and got one of the best left tackles in the National Football League.
08:30They have also brought in a potential contributor on the interior, I guess, if you think any of the guards that they signed,
08:40like Nate Urbig from Pittsburgh, are going to play.
08:43But for the most part, right now, you could make the case it's like one new starter.
08:48Andrew Wiley at right tackle.
08:50You got Beatish at center, who played really well.
08:52Laramie Tunsell at left tackle.
08:55Brandon Coleman's going to move over and hopefully upgrade another position.
09:01They're going to give him a chance at tackle to compete with Wiley.
09:04Maybe he wins that job.
09:05I kind of think he ends up at guard.
09:07But regardless, you've changed two positions because Coleman's changing spots.
09:11But they really only added one new starter.
09:14And with the financial commitment, it says it's top 10.
09:18How do people feel about what they've done?
09:20Are you confident it's going to be a strength now?
09:22I don't think it's a strength yet.
09:24I think it's improved.
09:25I think it's better.
09:26So you're probably then one interior starter away from strength?
09:28That's where it is for me.
09:29I think they got a lot better.
09:31I think they got away with it last year.
09:32And again, this has been my theme for this offseason is I don't want to get away with
09:36it again.
09:36I don't want to count on magic again.
09:38I don't want to count on unsustainable once a generation type things from happening.
09:44Again, they played ball control without a running game for the last eight games.
09:47Like you can't do that.
09:48You know what I mean?
09:49Like there's a lot of things that went their way that I don't think are repeatable and
09:52sustainable.
09:53This offensive line, I think, was maybe better than the sum of their parts last year.
09:58I think that was scheme.
09:59I think Daniel's helped.
09:59I think weak opponents helped.
10:01I think a number of things went their way.
10:02That I wouldn't count on.
10:04It's better.
10:05I think it's now probably fine or okay.
10:07I want it to be a strength though.
10:09And that to me probably means one more guard.
10:12It means, you know, if Coleman sticks at right tackle and can really do it as good as he
10:17saved, as he played at left tackle as a rookie, which I thought he held his own.
10:21Wasn't great.
10:21I don't think he was bad though by any stretch.
10:23Now you've upgraded two spots.
10:25If you now have something, you know, sort of brewing there, I think you could actually
10:28be good to have it be a plus.
10:29The other sneaky thing too, when you mentioned the Cosme injury is because that happened in
10:34the playoff game and like the second to last game they played in a sense, in terms of the
10:40week one starting offensive line, it's like losing someone in free agency as you look at
10:45it.
10:45You know what I'm saying?
10:45So yeah, you went and got a left tackle and Tunsell, you're better there, but you're
10:50worse at right guard where you had a really good player.
10:52He was your best lineman before Tunsell.
10:54Now he'll be your second best lineman.
10:55I watched him walk around Capital One Arena in an OV sweater, watching Ovechkin tie the
11:00record a couple of weeks ago.
11:01He's moving pretty well.
11:02Very different than anchoring and playing, but hopefully he's going to be ready, you know,
11:06a month or so into the season would be ideal.
11:08But that injury complicates things too.
11:10But if they were a C-minus, let's say at the end of the season, they're probably not
11:15higher right now than a B-minus.
11:17That's what I've got, yeah.
11:18You know, a little above average, probably in the 10 to 16 range.
11:24So is it a strength?
11:25No, but they've gotten better and they could still address that if they draft someone early
11:30enough.
11:30They just don't have a lot of picks.
11:31So unless they trade back, it's hard to fathom that, you know, he's starting guards walking
11:35through that door in the next 10 days in the NFL draft.