TAKING SHAPE

Command the Commute is back and the Commanders are  “Taking Shape” as Bob and Mike break down what the 2026 Washington Commanders are starting to become.

This episode kicks off with the debut of Instant Replay, where the guys correct last episode’s questionable takes, including preseason ticket prices, Jahan Dotson, Antonio Williams vs. Jaylin Lane, Ravens bandwagon slander, and some highly suspicious math.

Then it’s into the full Brandon Aiyuk saga: why he’s linked to Washington, the Jayden Daniels connection, the 49ers drama, the contract situation, injury questions, and whether the Commanders should actually make a move.

The main event is this week’s Depth Check on the running back room. Bob and Mike break down Jacory “Bill” Croskey-Merritt, Rachaad White, Jerome Ford, Jeremy McNichols, Kaytron Allen, and Robert Henry Jr., while asking if Washington could build its own version of Detroit’s Gibbs/Montgomery backfield.

Plus: Dutton Ranch, Mike’s movie reviews, UFC at the White House, Travis Pastrana, National Anthem game rumors, jersey talk, and plenty of offseason chaos.

Hail to the Redskins!

Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:10

This is the Command the Commute Podcast.

SPEAKER_04 0:15

Talking about the game, going to the game.

SPEAKER_06 0:20

Mikey, we're up and running. Another podcast. Yeah, let's do it. Here we are. So uh, of course, this is the Command the Commute podcast. We are recording live from the home office. We know our real podcast studio is in the van on the way to the game, talking about the game.

SPEAKER_04 0:40

But we've got three months till the season starts.

SPEAKER_06 0:42

So yeah, but June gets you starting to think about football even more. You know, every month we get a little bit closer to the end of the summer, you know.

SPEAKER_04 0:53

And summer hasn't even officially started yet.

SPEAKER_06 0:56

Yes, yes. So we are recording this. What's today? June 10th. Um, so kind of in that point of the season where, you know, there's not a whole lot of things to talk about unless you're signing players like and trading for players like the Rams.

SPEAKER_04 1:14

Yeah, and but we haven't been making a whole lot of splash moves.

SPEAKER_06 1:18

Miles Garrett did say I've seen a video out that Tuncil is one of his uh biggest challenges from last season. And we got them on the schedule this year, the Rams, uh, earlier in the season. Is it like one of our first six weeks?

SPEAKER_04 1:32

I I think so.

SPEAKER_06 1:33

Well, it's so funny how we spend so much time talking about this, and then it slips our mind play away.

SPEAKER_04 1:38

Hey, you know, you get down with one episode, you move on with the biggest. I wish we could just there's only so much bandwidth up. Right, right.

SPEAKER_06 1:44

Right, right, right, right, right. So the uh kind of the agenda. The agenda for the podcast. Uh I want to get into a variety of different things, and we've got a lot of sound bites and stuff. But the the the OTAs are are just closing up for a little bit, but um, but they had microphones and cameras and all these players' faces, so we've got tons of comments and takes on on their um interviews and stuff like that. But uh we're gonna get started with our instant new instant replay segment, and then after that, I want to I I dove deep into Iuk.

SPEAKER_04 2:26

Okay, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_06 2:28

Everybody kind of knows about Brandon Ayuk. Everybody kind of gets that he there's a connection, but I went through the whole thing because I kind of forgot, like, why is he even available? Why are we even talking about it? So I dove back and kind of looked into it all, and then we'll kind of figure out we'll we'll be able to put out there on the pod like our our opinion on that. Yeah. Um, and then uh our depth check segment uh of the pod, we're gonna talk about our running back room, which I'm really excited about. What do you what about you?

SPEAKER_04 3:00

I mean, there's there's some good options there. It's it's a full room.

SPEAKER_06 3:03

There's a un a lot of unproven potential. Yeah. Is that a good way to put it? Nobody's like a stud, but like there's a lot of guys that's like, well, maybe they'll work out with us because we got some.

SPEAKER_04 3:17

Unproven is the key word.

SPEAKER_06 3:19

Yeah. And then uh we'll kind of finish up quarter four, like we typically do with like a hodgepodge of of a lot of different things. Um, one of which I want to talk about specifically that you won't care about, but maybe some of our other listeners will, is the big UFC uh Freedom 250 um event that's happening this weekend.

SPEAKER_04 3:42

Right, Viva La Trompe, guys.

SPEAKER_06 3:44

Yes. So that uh that's kind of the agenda for for the podcast, but let's get in right into our our brand new segment called Instant Replay.

SPEAKER_04 4:02

Let's do that in an instant replay.

SPEAKER_06 4:08

So we've kind of needed this segment because God knows we say all sorts of stuff on here that just goes unchecked.

SPEAKER_04 4:17

Yes, right, and there are some people that are making it their job to check us.

SPEAKER_06 4:23

Hey, I appreciate it. We need that for us, and by all means, blow up the comments section. You guys, if we say something incorrect, put it in, put it in, and we'll shout you out. Um, but specifically our boy Tom, if you're a longtime listener, a loyal listener, you know my buddy Tom, and he how he listens, and and uh how we do our can't lose locks. He's always involved with that. Um but Tom listens to every pod, and he gave us a text message with a bunch of like little notes. Yes, little notes.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

He did indeed.

SPEAKER_06 4:58

One of the things that he said was that there was a 0% chance that the preseason game uh Washington versus Baltimore would be $17, which is what I said. That I said I want to go to that game, it's an away game.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

Yeah, and I told you I told you it was $17.

SPEAKER_06 5:16

I said, Yeah, well, it's 17 bucks to go to that game. So Tom thought that that was crazy without getting on Stubhub or Seat Geek or fan or whatever. Correct. What are they, Mike? Without getting? I didn't check when I said that, or you said that I forget which one of us said 17.

SPEAKER_04 5:33

I well when I told you this I told you the 17 bucks, and I looked earlier that day, but as Oh, you did? Yeah. But as Tom put in his critique, zero that was without, I think that was without the fees. So when you add the fees, you know, God forbid that probably adds like three dollars.

SPEAKER_06 5:51

Well, I would have to assume between now and the end of August, whenever that game is, that the tickets might drop a couple bucks right in the ballpark.

SPEAKER_04 5:59

Because now I think without fees, it's uh it went out tremendously. I think it's up to about $20 or something as of a couple days ago. So I'll have to check the text message.

SPEAKER_06 6:09

Yeah, the other thing that he said, which wasn't really a a uh a correction or if we were factually wrong or anything, but his his input is that Antonio Williams is better than Jalen Lane, which I kind of compared them together, but Tom seems to think that the rookie is is a lot better. He knows a lot more about college, college guys, these rookie, the rookie guys coming in interviews. So I'll I'll defer to him on that. Sure. I'll give him his kudos. Now he did say Jahan Donson signed with Atlanta way long ago, or forever ago, I think is what he said. Well, I looked that up. And I forget where we maybe we didn't even know where Jahan Donson signed or if he had signed anywhere. But yeah, he signed with Atlanta on March 12th. So forgive me for not knowing.

SPEAKER_04 6:56

Okay, that was three months ago.

SPEAKER_06 6:58

I mean, yeah, okay, so maybe forever ago, but it yeah. I didn't know where he signed off the top of the dome.

SPEAKER_04 7:06

So, you know, what the the dizzying heights of the moral high ground.

SPEAKER_06 7:11

Uh, I'll give you one thing that he was way wrong with, and one thing that he was definitely way right with. Okay. Um, he said that we should have made the jump to the Ravens in '96. Now, obviously, he's a Ravens fan. Yeah. But so he's bothered. But also, shame on him for advocating for jumping to different teams.

SPEAKER_03 7:31

Yeah. You know, who does that? Because he's pretty tried and Baltimore.

SPEAKER_06 7:36

You're all you do advocate for that if it's your team. Come over to my team. So I guess, you know, there's neither here nor there. But I disagree with that. We should be making it.

SPEAKER_04 7:46

Yeah, we we made that perfectly clear in the last episode.

SPEAKER_06 7:48

Now, what he was totally right with, and this is more of a direct reflection on you, Michael, and I'm sorry, but eight plus nine does not equal nine plus seven. They they are in fact different. Different. Um, it's crazy because both math equations involve a similar number, nine. And so, you know, eight plus nine, nine plus seven. You know, when they add the when they went from sixteen games to seventeen games, I think it's still messing with a lot of people's heads. Yours and mine included.

SPEAKER_04 8:22

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So thank you, Tom. We were wrong. We were wrong, and we apologize.

SPEAKER_06 8:28

Well, I wasn't wrong. You were wrong. I was trying to I was trying to set you up to say shorts. I was giving you this the softball quote. Oh, oh, I'm sorry, I I meant to say it, but you just didn't pick up. Look, no big deal.

SPEAKER_04 8:47

That was last episode. I was wrong. I apologize. Let's move on. You know, I don't hold grudges. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 8:54

Now, Tom, we appreciate you kick kickstarting the uh instant replay segment for us. And by all means, we encourage all of our listeners to see how he tears this episode apart.

SPEAKER_04 9:06

Let's stay tuned.

SPEAKER_06 9:07

We'll see. We shall see.

SPEAKER_04 9:09

On baited breath we win.

SPEAKER_06 9:11

I will say this he can't be correcting this segment because what goes in this segment can't be, you know, he can't be correcting this. It's just gonna be a never-ending thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:23

Um nobody has time for that.

SPEAKER_06 9:25

Yeah, ain't nobody got time for that. All right. So, next thing, and and for a lot of you guys out there, I think are probably exhausted with the Brandon Ayuk conversation. But, you know, he's adding to it. Fast forward if you don't want to hear our our second quarter of the podcast and the Brandon Ayuk saga. Um, but let me go ahead and kind of give you a thought of the tip. I think you're I think you're a little bit behind the times on maybe some of this stuff as well. So basically, in a nutshell, um, Brandon Ayuk and Jaden Daniels played together for the Arizona State Sun Devils in college. This was before Jaden Daniels went to LSU, right? So they became close friends there. So that is the none of this makes any sense. You gotta acknowledge the fact that they're buddies, right? Um now he in 2024 played a a great season, 75 catches, 1300 yards, seven touchdowns, second team all pro, right? And then just before that season, got his contract extension, four years, $120 million contract extension. And then he didn't plan big signing, right? Now so that no, that was 23. That's the contract that he played into in 24. Now, he got that extension before the 2024 season, and then in week six or seven uh uh week six or seven of tw the twenty twenty-four season, uh he tore his ACL and his MCL. Right. Right, and then he was out all of twenty-five. All of twenty-four, he he he didn't do that, right? And now you think, right, you tear your ACL in the middle of one season. Similar to like uh Hertz or or uh Keckler, right? They got those it wasn't ACL, but um it was a similar midseason injury. You think by the time the next season rolls around, he'll be good to go, right? So there was reports through his injury that he wasn't rehabbing with the team doctors, he wasn't really showing up to certain things, he was just kind of doing his own thing through the rehabilitation. Okay, which you know, everybody's got their own right to their own medical care. You know, I guess you don't have to have a 49, but at the same time, you gotta communicate with the team, right? So there were several disagreements about his recovery process from his perspective, their perspective, right or wrong. We're not here to debate that, right? But you come off of this contract extension, then you're not doing what the team's asking you to do. I mean, at the end of the day, they're you're they're your employer. Right. And so this went on through 24 and then into 25, and then throughout 25, the team was asked several times, how's he doing? When's he coming back? Correct. And they're they're kind of mums the wording it, like, he's we're expecting him back, it's going well, and then the timeline just keeps extending, extending, and standing, and then it gets to a point, it's like, all right, something's going on. Everybody's getting it's getting to the point where something is up. Um, and then because he should have been back. He should have been the it took too long.

SPEAKER_04 13:14

And then because there was speculation, if I recall correctly, that he may, he may have come back at the end of last season or toward the end, they were maybe kind of expecting him to come back, but then of course that never materialized. Right.

SPEAKER_06 13:31

So if it happens in oct the injury happens in October of 24, you're kind of thinking that, you know, well, year, because that's about what the recovery process, I mean, more takes. A lot of guys come back even sooner than that. But Adrian Peterson is historically known for like tearing his ACL, coming back exactly a year later, and then tearing the lead back up. He was like the first guy to get one of these awesome ACL recovery processes. And since ever since him, it seems like everybody's on that year.

SPEAKER_04 14:02

But but a year is, I think, like you said, is what's expected.

SPEAKER_06 14:06

Right. But come at the end of that year, if you're still not around the team and then you've been disagreeing with team doctors the whole time. Um, and so now the team's starting to have to do some things like void some of his guarantees that were in the back half of certain years of his contract and kind of stuff like that. And in December of 25, the team did their first official thing and they put him on the reserve. It wasn't an injury list, but it's like left with this team, or it wasn't that he retired, but I forget the what they had it classified. Um, but basically he's not here. We he's not hanging out here no more. Um, and immediately all the why all the trade rumors, it's like, all right, it's not the first time a team and a wide receiver didn't get along. We know what's gonna happen. They're just gonna part ways, another team that'll work some kind of a deal out or whatever, and we're the first link. Um he starts posting stuff to Instagram. This is why it's all in those in the news lately, is because he's like, what the heck is going on? Now from the 49ers perspective, they're like, Yeah, he comes with a little bit of baggage, but we're not just gonna give him away for nothing.

SPEAKER_04 15:22

But this the the speeding ticket video from I think December.

SPEAKER_06 15:29

So he starts making another one play for Washington. Everybody saw that in that last December or whatever, that he sped by the the 49ers stadium going 100 miles an hour or whatever. We all saw that. Nothing came of it until now. Conveniently. Why does it take why does it take six months for that to come out when it's got millions of views online? What were they waiting for? I don't understand the timing aspect of all that.

SPEAKER_04 15:55

Yeah, that's the question.

SPEAKER_06 15:57

It doesn't make any sense to me. Because why wouldn't why wouldn't it have happened two months ago, three months ago, four months ago? I don't know. But go on. Anyway, alright, so now he so and he's still making it known. I want to play for Washington, I want to play for Washington. And from Washington's perspective, we're kind of sitting there like, why should we trade for this guy and trade his current contract? Because we'd have to trade for his contract, or because the player and the contract comes with it, and we don't want that contract. I don't want that contract. I wouldn't want that. Trade for him if there's if we know that we're gonna renegotiate and this is what it's gonna be. Um we sign, do that, but don't trade for that contract. We can't afford that contract with a player with all that, and that's what the rest of the league is thinking, too. And so we're also just kind of thinking, all right, well, like he's made it known, he wants to play for us. We'll just wait, wait for the 49ers to release him, and then we'll just sign him for what we want to. Yeah, it makes sense one year, $7 million, eight, nine, ten, I don't know. He went for four year to one twenty to I don't know what he's gonna get now. I don't know what is deserving. Like, what would you be happy with? And this kind of gets into that summarizes the whole saga here.

SPEAKER_04 17:17

The the money I don't know, but I would say if they release him and you're not taking on the the mega contract, it'll probably be a two-year contract. You know, like one year with a one-year option type thing for whatever amount of money insert, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_06 17:35

I mean, would you be okay?

SPEAKER_04 17:37

I mean, if you're asking me, are we gonna end up signing him? Yes. Uh but would I be okay taking on his current mega contract? No.

SPEAKER_06 17:49

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 17:53

Because he's kind of he's kind of unproven because he's been out for the last year and a half. So you know what you're signing, but really you don't know what you're signing, you know? Because he's not I could all you could almost guarantee that he's not gonna be the same player that he was essentially two years ago.

SPEAKER_06 18:14

We yeah, we don't know. We don't know. We know he's gonna be good. We know we need a wide receiver too.

SPEAKER_04 18:20

But but I I think we're I think we're still going to end up with him one way or the other for that exact reason. We need a wide receiver number two. We can't just have Terry.

SPEAKER_06 18:33

Right. Well, we talked about the wide receivers in last week's episode. So if you're curious about our take on the depth chart there and who makes the team and what everything looks like, uh by all means go back and and listen to that. But uh so from what I'm gathering from you, you're fine with signing IUK as long as the contract is is the right dollar figure and it doesn't really hurt us. And I I I agree. I agree. I don't really care. I mean, to to to in this league's a day and age, to say like now we're not gonna sign a wide receiver because he's got some baggage, it's like they all have baggage.

SPEAKER_04 19:10

Yeah, and if you really prefer a one-year deal.

SPEAKER_06 19:12

I want a I want our next wide receiver too, and we went through um the list of candidates, but I'd like a tier one guy that's available in free agency. Um and honestly, I would prefer a one-year deal because I would like another guy that's on our team currently to break out and steal the wide receiver two spot. Um because you can't expect Keenan Allen or Tyreek Hill or Stefan Diggs or Brandon Ayuk to be around for that much longer anyway. Correct. So yeah. Anyway, so that kind of wraps up the kind of tidies up our wide receiver conversation from last week and informs everybody that's unaware of the Brandon Ayuk stuff. And by all means, he's got plenty of content out there on Instagram. Just tune in.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

Yeah, he's you know, he he's putting it out there. He he's doing everything he can to get them to cut him as soon as humanly possible. Yeah. Cut slash release, whatever verbiage you want to use. He wants out. Right, right.

SPEAKER_06 20:23

So anyway, well, that wraps that up. Let's get into our uh our third quarter, and we're kind of just flying by here today. Yeah, that's like yeah, I'm cool with it. I'm cool with it. You know why? We're not really sipping back on our Jaden Daniels on the rocks like we typically do. I mean, we definitely are, but we ain't kicking them back like we do. Correct. School night. Big school night. We got a big week ahead of us this week, personally. Anyway, let's get into our next segment. Uh, death check. Death check.

SPEAKER_04 21:09

What do you think when you look in this room with the whole? What do you feel like you bring up?

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Uh obviously, I think we loaded in the room. Uh a lot of young talent with Rob and uh Katreon. Obviously, Bill's still being young. Um older guys like me, kind of Jerome and uh J Mac, uh, we do a good job too. So I think the room is loaded, uh, full of a lot of talent. I think we all do a lot of things well. We all got different styles. I think we all do a lot of things like every down to be uh very good. And I don't know, I just feel like I don't know. Like I just try to play my game, just try to be me. Uh they look up to me in the aspect of like asking me questions and things like that. So I try to be there to help them. Uh only been in year five. Uh they look up at me as a veteran, and I mean I still don't see it yet, but and I don't want to look at it like that yet. But uh, I'm glad they respect me and they can ask me anything and I give them the game.

SPEAKER_06 22:01

Running backs. Yeah, what's I love a good running back. Who's your favorite Washington running back of your lifetime?

SPEAKER_04 22:12

I mean I I almost kind of go back to Clinton. I feel like that was kind of kind of the the peak for us a little bit, at least in my lifetime. You know?

SPEAKER_06 22:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

I I mean it was like we signed him. It was like, okay, we actually have a good running back, someone who can actually and then of course when we had AP for a couple seasons, it was like that was fun watching him. You know, that he did good. Yeah. But uh those two, but Clinton especially, because it was like, wow, we've got a proven running back. We might actually like do something, of course.

SPEAKER_06 22:47

I always liked Alfred Morris too. Um, he's just a soft-spoken, kind of a sweet guy, humble guy, and our scheme was perfect for his style in 2012 and 2013.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

He was good for us. He wasn't so good when he went to Dallas and all of that.

SPEAKER_06 23:08

No, but honestly, uh like hats off to a guy like him for putting together a decently long career.

SPEAKER_04 23:16

But running backs are kind of like racehorses, you know. You have them for uh I'd say what, one to three years, you literally run them into the ground, get the best out of them, and then you know, out they go, and in comes the fresh, the fresh crop.

SPEAKER_06 23:32

Do you have a least favorite running back?

SPEAKER_04 23:35

Not that I can think of off the top of my head. But I'm since you brought it up, I'm sure you do.

SPEAKER_06 23:41

No, I honestly just kind of no, I don't. We drafted him pretty high.

SPEAKER_04 23:50

Um, I forget which era, which but they're so interchangeable because they're they have such a short NFL lifespan on any team, not just ours.

SPEAKER_06 24:01

Right, right. Well, let's get into our current running backs. Um, and the order I'll kind of ramble them off here is uh kind of what I anticipate they're listed as on the starting roster as of right now. Um we've got our of course our guy Bill, Jacori Kosky, Jacori Krosky, Mary, Jacori Krosky, Merrick. Just call him Bill. AKA Bill. And then Rashad White, new guy. Yeah. We got Jerome Ford, new guy.

SPEAKER_03 24:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 24:42

Jeremy McNichols, guy that's been around for us, guy that's been around for the league for a long time now. I didn't realize until I started kind of uh doing our little homework for this segment. But uh he's 31 years old. He's been around for a long time and a lot of teams. Um lot of teams. Most of all practice squads, but a couple different practice squads. But producer for us in clutch moments. Um then Katron Allen, uh our draft pick from this year from Penn State. And then uh Robert Henry Jr. is undrafted.

SPEAKER_04 25:16

Uh oh, I didn't have him on my list.

SPEAKER_06 25:19

Yeah, he's been at OTAs. He's he's uh he's there. He's there. Uh well we can get into that. Um so Bill is gonna be kind of our featured guy. I mean, he's been featured in a lot of our media. He's he's on a lot of uh the signage, you know.

SPEAKER_04 25:41

I mean, he right now he's obviously the number one.

SPEAKER_06 25:45

I feel like he put together a a good season last year uh for a rookie. He made some rookie mistakes for sure. Um some really costly fumbles in in certain times. One that comes to mind is against the Bears. Um, and it's not the the Jaden Daniels fumble, but he had another fumble uh a couple drives before the the big fumble that turned the game around. But um, yeah. Of course I like Bill. Who doesn't like Bill? He's he's a patient runner, uh super athletic, quick. So he's gonna be what we hope is our featured back.

SPEAKER_04 26:32

But I mean, uh based off of that depth chart, I I think it's clear that he is gonna be the the featured back.

SPEAKER_06 26:41

Do you have his stats?

SPEAKER_04 26:42

Uh I do. Last season he was uh 175 uh for uh 805 yards with eight touchdowns, and had uh receiving wise he was nine for sixty-eight.

SPEAKER_06 27:02

Nine for sixty-eight.

SPEAKER_05 27:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 27:06

Um I'm gonna I mean, I'm running hard for a breakout in in Bill because like we were just saying, it's so much fun when the lead back on your team is a stud.

SPEAKER_04 27:20

Yeah. Uh and he's and he certainly was that last year.

SPEAKER_06 27:24

I mean, we had a rotational backfield last year for a variety of different reasons. I think we we got Bill out there too fast too soon. Um, and the offense was trying to evolve, and it just couldn't with them with the rookie. Um who's the next guy on your list?

SPEAKER_04 27:46

Uh I mean, I've got the same list that you do, but let's just go down. The number two uh, I think is Rashad.

SPEAKER_06 27:52

Yeah, Rashad. He he's a guy that I mean I'm excited to see I'm excited to see what Rashad and Jerome Ford look like um in Burgundy and Gold. We're gonna get to see them, I think, a lot in in the preseason, and just to kind of see how our offense is is gonna look. Um there's a part of me, I don't know why I'm leaning this way, but I think it's just because Blau's last year as a player was um in Detroit, and then we brought him over here as a coach. And the offense that they were running over there, I don't know why I feel like he was a fan of it, but how couldn't you have been a fan of it, right? It's the mentality. And so I'm curious if we're gonna look at Bill like the Gibbs in the offense, and look at the other guys as more of a David Montgomery, who's now no longer with um Detroit. God, Tom's gonna be moped for this. Where did he go? Montgomery. I think he went to Houston.

SPEAKER_04 29:09

Sounds right, but I honestly don't know. He'll he'll rake us over the coals for not knowing. And I'll just apologize in advance.

SPEAKER_06 29:18

I did a mock draft the other day, too, just because I know like doing a mock draft and seeing the names come through, you can kind of familiarize yourself with where certain guys have gone. Um but man, I forget. I forget where he went. But I hey, I know he ain't with Detroit no more. I'm curious where he's where that's gonna fill in because that was uh an integral part of their offense. Not just Jared Goff doing so good, but their running backs were like a huge strength for for Detroit. So I'm curious if like of Rashad White and Jerome Ford, and honestly, I'm wondering if our rookie out of Penn State ends up being our David Montgomery. Um he's six foot, he's 220 pounds, kind of a a downhill, you know, rough tumble, kind of a runner. He's a hard runner, um, which is kind of what Montgomery is. Whereas Gibbs is quicker and can move like from side to side down the field, whereas I look at Bill's patience and I see the same thing. So I don't know. Um, I'm excited to see where everything falls. Now we re-signed McNichols because all of our running backs except for Bill last year were contractors up. We we lost Rodriguez. Um and then obviously nobody has signed Eckler, but he's he's still out there. I'm sure somebody will sign him. He'll get a veteran minimum um somewhere, and I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't produce a little bit in the right um for the right team. Um but I think we brought back McNichols specifically because we have a guy who has been on practice squads, he's been on our practice squad and has been clutch for us coming in in the middle of the season to fill in for injuries. And I think there's a lot of guys that probably get a little butthurt not being able to be in the starting roster, and they don't want to be to the practice squad, and that might be beneath me. I'll be on another team, like who will sign me and they'll just go anywhere. Um, but there's something to be said about a guy that doesn't mind grinding on the practice squad and waiting for his opportunity. I think that's why we got McNichols. I don't think we would have signed Ford or um White if they weren't gonna make the team. Now, they don't have huge contracts.

SPEAKER_04 32:01

No, but they are the veterans I both of those contracts are what? Um Rashad is a one year at two million, and Fort's the practically the same thing. He's one year at 1.2 so yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:26

And then honestly, this Robert Henry guy, uh nothing about him.

SPEAKER_04 32:32

Yeah, he didn't even show up on on my research.

SPEAKER_06 32:36

I mean, you always gotta have another guy, and I am curious how many guys that we have on the active 53 do or is it 54 now? I think it's it 53. I don't know, it doesn't matter. But I wonder how many players uh how many running backs we're gonna carry. Four or five. Four is a lot. We're definitely gonna have four. But if we have a fifth, who's who makes it? I think it's Bill, I think it's White, I think it's four, and I think it's Catron Allen because he's a rook. Maybe he starts on the practice squad, but like I don't think so.

SPEAKER_04 33:20

I don't necessarily disagree with that, but you still think McNichols doesn't make the team, he makes like the practice squad. I think that's why we re-signed him.

SPEAKER_06 33:31

Because why would we sign all these other guys if we were just gonna like he like he's proven like he can do what we want him to do?

SPEAKER_04 33:39

But yeah, but like if I'm looking at the stats from last year, I don't know. Ford didn't really do much. He was 24 for 73 and receiving, he was 26 for 103.

SPEAKER_06 33:54

So he didn't have a huge role over there, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 33:58

Now granted it was Cleveland, so Cleveland. You know how I feel about that, just check last season, but right.

SPEAKER_06 34:06

But I do think that we're gonna have a rotation. I'd love it if it was a two-headed monster.

SPEAKER_04 34:14

Oh, we if this is if this is the depth chart and if it remains so, if they don't, you know, cut anyone or make any other adjustments, I think it's clear it's gonna be a bi-committee structure. Because there's no there's no true, for lack of a better word, true veteran standout that will automatically always be the number one, you know, ground and pound. So it's gonna be a by-committee.

SPEAKER_06 34:46

I and I which I don't mind, but what has been so frustrating to me in years past is like when you have that rotational running back room like that, and your running back's got different skill sets, and you see, all right, for example, Chris Thompson sitting there sitting next to uh the quarterback in shotgun on third down, you're kind of like, all right, we've seen this play. You can become very predictable when certain guys get in in certain packages and certain that's that's the negative. And I don't like how predictable that becomes. For that 24 season with Kingsbury, I didn't think we looked predictable at all.

SPEAKER_05 35:34

No.

SPEAKER_06 35:35

But his offense did get a little bit stagnant. I don't think he was all to blame for why our offense struggled last year, but it his play calling did did get stagnant.

SPEAKER_04 35:49

But um, and that's because he had so many injuries. It was exactly that. It was you know, after year one, he was pretty much doing the same thing, and with the injuries and stuff, it was predictable. Everybody knew. So, you know, it was a a double-headed monster of issues.

SPEAKER_06 36:08

Yeah. But anyway, any other notes on on the running backs you want to share?

SPEAKER_04 36:16

Not that we haven't really covered, like we went through their stats and we kind of already know what their contracts are, and it just it is what it is, unless they sign some splashy running back. But I don't see that I don't see that happening.

SPEAKER_06 36:29

Yeah, I don't see that happening either. I I would be surprised if we if we end up signing a running back, unless, of course, one of these guys gets injured in the in the preseason. But it seems like the running backs that we've got are gonna be the guys that come into the season. And uh but you know, also God, we really have a lot riding on Bill. I'm ro I'm trying to wrap my head around it. But it we have a we are really depending on Bill a lot.

SPEAKER_04 36:57

Yeah, I mean, and that's that's why I'm gonna say this. Like just looking at the depth chart as I did the other day when I started to do the research, honestly, it's kind of a it's kind of a weak point. There, you know, it's could be like an Achilles heel to the to the team.

SPEAKER_06 37:17

We're banking on a a big step in production from Bill. And if that doesn't happen, then we're sitting here scratching our heads. But we'll be able to listen back to this conversation uh mid-season and kind of say, well, we said that it was a weak point because there was times last year where I felt like, man, like they're they're taking the carries away from Bill a little bit, and we're depending on Rodriguez and McNichols and like Mariana and Avery, man. It's got to a point where it's just like it got too much last year. But I'm curious, obviously, always curious how this year will go. Um, all right. Anything else on running backs?

SPEAKER_03 38:00

I'm good.

SPEAKER_06 38:01

Okay. Well, a big uh portion of the running back success obviously comes down to the offensive line. And the only guy that we really uh the only guy that we didn't really get back was uh Beatis badass. I call him badass, Tyler Badass. Where'd he go? Chargers? I gotta stop doing that. Yeah, I gotta stop. Tom's gonna eat us alive. I gotta stop guessing on where these guys go. I know, all right. Where did that gonna go? I think he went to a West Coast team. I I'm confident.

SPEAKER_04 38:37

And Tom's gonna, you know, it doesn't he's gonna fillet your ass to not know.

SPEAKER_06 38:41

But um but there is something to be said about the uh consistency of the offensive line that we're bringing. We got a couple guys coming back uh next week, or not next week, but our next podcast episode will get into the offensive line for the death check portion of the podcast, and we'll kind of just tease it with um Nick Algretti getting a microphone, putting his face and his comments on the fact that uh it looks like we've got some consistency at that position.

SPEAKER_02 39:10

And keeping continuity on this offensive line, minus the honest. Everybody's back. What a benefit is that? What do you mean if it's that everybody's back in their position and you're just going forward together?

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Uh I don't think that could really be overstated. It's uh very rare to have that much of a that many guys coming back into the room. Um not just not just the five of starting guys up front, but everybody that's in the room. I think we have I mean Foster did come back, but he was here with us last year, brought the two rooks in uh who've been awesome. Um but just the trust that we have in each other, um it continues to grow the more you play with each other. And I I really can't overstate how much how important that is to offensive line play, to the point where you get to make less and less double team calls, three-man calls, because you're on the same page. Um everybody knows you go out there and you you make a a B call or a deuce call. Everyone, a lot of those D-linemen know what that means. So the less that you have to do that, the better you're able to keep the defense on their toes, you're on the same page without really even having to communicate so huge that we are able to bring so many guys.

SPEAKER_06 40:21

Yeah, so there's Nick Algardy, and while while you guys while we were playing that, Mike and I were just sitting here talking about the defense, and man, they you're right, they better be better than they were last year. Because they were they were pathetic last year. Yeah. Man.

SPEAKER_04 40:40

But anyway, that's what we're teasing for the next episode.

SPEAKER_06 40:43

Yeah, because I want to talk about the defense a little bit. And we're gonna end this podcast with um Kin Law's microphone moment from about a week and a half ago. Uh PFT commentator for Barstool said that he uses the word shit like a comma, and that's how he did. So we'll finish the uh episode with that in case um you didn't want to listen to that. We'll we'll finish it with that. But anyway, so the fourth quarter here, we basically get into our our hodgepodge uh section um of the podcast. And basically, first things first, you're uh a regal crown club member. Yes. Where you see unlimited movies in theaters.

SPEAKER_03 41:32

Correct.

SPEAKER_06 41:33

So since the last podcast, what's has there been a movie that stood out to you as a good one?

SPEAKER_04 41:41

Let me pull out my list because I add to it each time I Yeah, I should have prepared you while you're looking up your list.

SPEAKER_06 41:48

I mean, the Dutton Ranch, are you caught up on that?

SPEAKER_04 41:52

Yes. Badass season. Yes. Love, love. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 41:58

So that last episode was uh uh I think it was episode five. Yeah. I had a twist in there.

SPEAKER_04 42:03

I was not expecting I like where they're going. I mean, obviously we don't know where they're going, but I I like where I think we're going.

SPEAKER_06 42:12

Very curious. Uh and and then the boy, what's his boy's name, Carter? Yeah. Man, that boy is gonna He's teenaging it up, that's for sure. He's getting himself into some trouble, man. Yeah, he better be careful. But yeah, I'm looking forward to that. And I did, I did just have in the background as background noise as I was doing some household chores the other day. I put on the Marshalls.

SPEAKER_04 42:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 42:38

It doesn't, I mean, it does answer a couple things, and it's still in the Yellowstone universe.

SPEAKER_04 42:45

Um but does it grab your attention?

SPEAKER_06 42:48

Or is it background noise? I didn't say that.

SPEAKER_04 42:50

That's what I was or are that's what I was gonna say. Or is it truly?

SPEAKER_06 42:54

There's a couple, there's a couple moments where I I I you know I paid attention to, but for the most part, it you know, it's not as good. It's not the same caliber of show as Yellowstone or the or the Dun Ranch. Dun Ranch, like we talked about before, it it feels like a continuation of Yellowstone.

SPEAKER_04 43:12

Very much so.

SPEAKER_06 43:13

Marshall's feels closer to like I don't know, Blue Bloods or NCIS or one or whatever these CBS shows are anymore.

SPEAKER_04 43:22

Yeah. Because well well, like we were talking about a couple weeks ago or whatever, it's it's more of a procedural uh cop show than like a true Yellowstone.

SPEAKER_06 43:34

They should have just they they could have called the show U.S. Marshals. And the fact that the Casey Dutton is the main character, you know, that's the only thing that ties it in.

SPEAKER_04 43:45

Right, because it's just a cop drama. It's it's not like the Dutton ranch where yes, it's a spin off, but it truly feels like a continuation of that story and that universe.

SPEAKER_06 43:58

Yeah, yeah. All right, you. Movie list?

SPEAKER_04 44:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 44:01

Anything good?

SPEAKER_04 44:02

Well, I I've seen 27 this year through June. Oh th thus far in June.

SPEAKER_06 44:10

Your yearly record, I know that was set in 2024. That was 60? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:15

And 25 of I don't know, it was around 50 something. It was a couple couple short.

SPEAKER_06 44:22

So I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 44:24

But anyway, uh the two most recent movies that I saw that I I really enjoyed um was Backrooms, which we kind of talked about off-air. I thought that was pretty good. And just the other night I watched uh Power Ballad. That is the new movie with uh Paul Rudd and the one with Jonas Brother.

SPEAKER_06 44:51

That was oh, okay, okay, okay. I think I did see a trailer or a clip or something.

SPEAKER_04 44:58

That was a good movie.

SPEAKER_06 44:59

Was it?

SPEAKER_04 45:00

Paul Rudd did a fantastic job in that movie.

SPEAKER_06 45:03

What what what's it about in a nutshell?

SPEAKER_04 45:05

It's basically about Paul Rudd's character. He allegedly writes this pop song that this artist steals from him.

SPEAKER_06 45:18

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 45:19

And the whole movie is really about did he write the song? Did he come up with the song? Is it truly his, or does it belong to the the pop star?

SPEAKER_06 45:33

Right.

SPEAKER_04 45:34

Uh, but it's a very good movie.

SPEAKER_06 45:36

Wow. Alright, okay. I'll look out for it. Um what's still top of your list for this year?

SPEAKER_04 45:45

Uh Hail Mary, still number one.

SPEAKER_06 45:47

It was good. I saw that.

SPEAKER_04 45:48

Uh oh, did you finally get around to it?

SPEAKER_06 45:50

I I I enjoyed it. Uh I had a free rental on Prime, so I used it on that.

SPEAKER_04 45:55

Yeah, that's still my number one.

SPEAKER_06 45:57

It was good. It's definitely different. Uh I feel like there was an Adam Sandler movie that came out like two or three years ago on Netflix where he was in space. The concept of that movie was very similar to me.

SPEAKER_03 46:11

Yeah, I think I kind of knew what you're talking about, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 46:13

But this one was way better than the Adam Sandler version. Yeah. Uh whatever that one was. But all right. Um, uh the UFC 250 Freedom event that's happening this Sunday on the White House lawn.

SPEAKER_04 46:32

Isn't it exciting?

SPEAKER_06 46:33

Isn't it cra I like I am a UFC fan?

SPEAKER_04 46:37

It's almost a shame the ballroom wasn't built. They could have just done it in there.

SPEAKER_06 46:41

It is crazy to me that this event is actually happening.

SPEAKER_00 46:46

I know.

SPEAKER_06 46:47

I it it's it is odd that there's an octagon in in the White House lawn. I could admit to that and still be a fan of everything that's happening. It is weird, but I dig it. Now, what's weirder is that Saturday, Travis Pastrana is jumping a dirt bike over the south lawn.

SPEAKER_03 47:13

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_06 47:16

Brought to you by Nitro Circus. So uh what do you think is more uh unusual? The octagon in the front lawn or the dirt bike in the south lawn? I am a huge fan of like the two 250 uh events that are taking place and all the celebration and the patriotism that that that comes with it and how DC's being taken over with all these types of uh of things. I love it all, but it's getting to a point where it's like we're living in that what's that movie? Uh my buddy joked the other day that next next year he's bringing back like celebrity deathmatch in real life.

SPEAKER_04 47:59

Yeah, it's like we're we're living that movie, what is it? Uh like idiocracy, and it's like, you know, what was the drink in there, like booty sweat or something like that?

SPEAKER_06 48:09

No, that's Tropic Thunder. Uh what was what was the drink in um There was a drink in electro-likes. Yeah, that had electricity. Yeah. It was like a Gatorade or something.

SPEAKER_04 48:20

But it's like that's that's what's missing from this, you know, uh Trump America 250 event, you know.

SPEAKER_06 48:27

What are you talking about? We got Logan Paul's prime everywhere. It's basically the same drink.

SPEAKER_04 48:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 48:33

And people are literally walking around in Crocs. Uh that's what the Crocs got introduced by that movie, Idiot Christy.

SPEAKER_04 48:41

I hate those shoes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 48:43

Uh, but I am a U UFC fan, and uh just putting it out there. If anybody's curious what I think about the fights, I'm just gonna put it. I'm not gonna deep dive into each matchup or anything. Um, but here's my picks. And I'm not deviating off of this. Uh I'm going lopes. I always want to say Lopez, but it's not. It's lopes. And then I got uh bonechel, then I've got Ruffy, I've got Hocket, I got O'Malley, I'm taking Pereira and Taporier. Um Tapora. What's the fish?

SPEAKER_04 49:22

Uh I think it's Tempora.

SPEAKER_06 49:25

Oh, no, uh Tilapia. Oh no, Tempora. Yeah, you're right. No, but the guy, the fighter's name is Taporie, but he's from Spain. He's a commander's fan, by the way. He was in all the stuff for last year's Spain game. He was he was one of their celebrities promoting that, but that dude is bad. He's one of the baddest dudes on the planet. All these guys could kick pretty much 99.9% of the world's ass. Um, I'm not questioning that. Yeah, nor should you. You ever come across with anybody with cauliflower ear, go down the next aisle. These are bad dudes. Um, but yeah, I'm sure you get to see them on CBS on White House Lawn this Sunday night at 8 p.m.

SPEAKER_04 50:12

I'll probably tune in.

SPEAKER_06 50:14

You'll you have to. You have to. It's gonna be an historic event. I'm curious how it's all gonna look, the camera angles and all that stuff. And if it rains, very curious.

SPEAKER_04 50:23

It's not supposed to rain, I don't think. It's supposed to be pretty warm this weekend.

SPEAKER_06 50:28

We'll see, but I'm curious about the bugs. I mean uh like there's a lot of things I'm curious about, and I'm sure all the things I'm curious about are gonna be non-factors, and the event will go without go on without a hitch. But hard tell. Come tune in. We shall see. Um, last thing on my list here, and uh you're more than welcome to add to the fourth quarter here in Michael, but we uh are going back. We are going back to where to the field.

SPEAKER_05 51:00

Oh we're going to be.

SPEAKER_04 51:02

It hasn't been, I don't think it's been confirmed.

SPEAKER_06 51:05

Well, we don't have the tickets yet.

SPEAKER_04 51:07

I didn't know we were making that uh public knowledge.

SPEAKER_06 51:11

I am. I got that text message and to send it over immediately this week that the uh Salisbury alumni game is week three, right? Our first home opener against the Giants. Uh and we're they're letting the the Salisbury alumni go on the field for the national anthem.

SPEAKER_04 51:34

Yeah, we need we need someone to sign us up for it again.

SPEAKER_06 51:38

Well, yeah, because we're not Salisbury alum, but we participate.

SPEAKER_04 51:42

What are you talking about? Uh I am. I graduated in whatever year you tell me.

SPEAKER_06 51:50

No, we I mean the Salisbury alum gets plus ones for for their friends and family. So yeah, we we always get invited to that uh alumni game. We should figure out what other types of organizations are doing that type of stuff and and find friends.

SPEAKER_04 52:06

We need to find out if they're selling a t-shirt like they did last season and get that shit reserved.

SPEAKER_06 52:13

Yeah, what was that shirt let it fucking rip?

SPEAKER_04 52:16

Yeah, it was a Dan Quinn Let It Rip shirt.

SPEAKER_06 52:19

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I was thinking about our command the commute hats this year. You know what I think I want, I want gold hats with a burgundy rope.

SPEAKER_04 52:27

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 52:28

What do you think?

SPEAKER_04 52:29

That'd be an intention grabber.

SPEAKER_06 52:30

Yeah, yeah. That's where I that's where I'm leaning. But I like the rope hats. They're slick looking.

SPEAKER_04 52:36

Yeah. Um but I do have something to add in the fourth quarter, and then we can uh you know take this thing home. Um year-end merch sales for 2025-26. I have the top 10 earners. Now, this is just for officially licensed merchandise, it doesn't include like personal endorsements, stuff like that.

SPEAKER_06 53:05

Right, like from the NFL shop or from the team's programs and the websites like affiliated with the NFL. They're their own personal statistics. But this is a pretty strong indicator is where like those secondary markets are headed to.

SPEAKER_04 53:18

Yeah, I thought it was a pretty I've got the top ten. I thought it was a pretty interesting top ten.

SPEAKER_06 53:24

Yeah, give me the rundown. Let's hear it. I'm curious.

SPEAKER_04 53:26

We're gonna go, we'll go in reverse order.

SPEAKER_06 53:29

We'll go 10 before you give me this, because I'm gonna go 10 to 1. Yeah, and before you give me this list, does this list include um rookies that have just been drafted?

SPEAKER_04 53:40

It includes top earners.

SPEAKER_06 53:43

So it could be No, I'm um, because I'm trying to come up with a list of who's gonna be on this list in my head, but I'm curious. Okay, so the new rookie class is incorporated onto this. So all right, give it to me um from 10 to 1.

SPEAKER_04 53:59

10 is uh Micah Parsons. Hmm. Uh nine is Jordan Love. Eight is Caleb Williams, seven is uh Jalen Hurts, uh six is Mahomes. Okay, five is our guy JD.

SPEAKER_06 54:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 54:24

Okay. All right. Uh four is uh Jackson Smith Najigba. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 54:33

All right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:34

Three is Saint Juan. All right. Two is Drake May. Okay. Fresh off his Super Bowl appearance. And number one is uh the tried and true Josh Allen.

SPEAKER_06 54:50

All right. Um I was like, am I surprised by Parsons? No, no.

SPEAKER_04 55:01

I was kind of surprised by that, I'll be honest.

SPEAKER_06 55:03

I I think I'm more surprised with Jordan Love, but Packers fans are everywhere, it seems like there's one of those Midwest teams where you but you can still find uh Packers fans pretty much everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 55:18

And somehow I thought I honestly thought Mahomes would be a little higher on the list just because it's Mahomes and you know he's he's the the darling of the league, you know, and has been for a couple years now. I kind of thought he'd be a little higher on the list. But as much as I was surprised by far, I was really surprised by Drake May.

SPEAKER_06 55:43

Well, uh yes and no. You so like you give a slight edge with those stats to younger players who perform well, right? Because like with Mahomes, people have been buying his jersey for years.

SPEAKER_04 55:59

Right.

SPEAKER_06 55:59

Right?

SPEAKER_04 56:00

And so the fact that And it's not like they've come out with a a new jersey combination.

SPEAKER_06 56:07

No, no, but it just goes to show that people are buying duplicates. Yeah, I need a red and a white. Um, but with Drake Bay, and the same thing with uh Jackson Smith, the job you make Super Bowl, you're you're you people are gonna be scooping up your your jersey.

SPEAKER_04 56:25

Um now that's one thing I don't do. I can't speak for you, but I don't buy duplicate jerseys. I pick the scheme of the jersey that I want in that player, whatever it is.

SPEAKER_06 56:38

So this brings up a good uh question here, and we'll finish with this. So um I I agree. I mean, unless I don't know, it depends on the team that you have, because I have a specific criteria uh for for jerseys that you you purchase.

SPEAKER_04 56:58

Yeah, you're very specific. You have a very specific criteria.

SPEAKER_06 57:02

Yeah, well, my criteria with buying a jersey is one, you hope that they're on their second contract. Because if they're on their second contract, then they'll be known with that team forever, you know?

SPEAKER_03 57:22

Right.

SPEAKER_06 57:22

Their rookie deal was four years, you sign them to another three or four-year deal, they spend seven, eight years with the team, they'll always be known with that team. You know what I mean? They're locked in, so it's a safe bet because 10 years from now, you could still wear that player's jersey. For instance, I've got a Kerrigan jersey. He was the perfect jersey to get. As soon as he signed that second deal, get me that Kerrigan jersey because I'll be able to wear it forever. Cooley. I got a Cooley jersey, same deal. Now, Sean Taylor doesn't fit the bill just because of the unfortunate events of his life, but Sean Taylor is a jersey, boom, as long as they're gonna be known.

SPEAKER_04 58:08

In the time that he was with us, I mean, he he made an impact outside of the unfortunate events that I agree make his jersey warranted outside of the unfortunate events that occurred.

SPEAKER_05 58:23

Right.

SPEAKER_04 58:24

He made enough of an impact where it uh you can't go wrong because not having that jersey.

SPEAKER_06 58:32

Right. So I I like I like the jersey of the player that signed their second contract deal, right? Uh for those reasons. Uh so that's like my ideal criteria. And then I've broken the rule. I've broken the rule because and the reason why I break the rule is for a rookie that performs well, right? So we drafted him, performs well, boom, I'm buying his jersey. I want it. He's gonna be here forever. He's our savior, right? Right, you buy his jersey, and then you hope that they sign that second deal, because if they don't, then they're just a bust. Right? Yeah, so and then it's like now you're just the guy walking around in a Chase Young jersey.

SPEAKER_04 59:28

Guilty.

SPEAKER_06 59:29

Right, right. And I don't have a Chase Young jersey, but I do have a RG3 jersey, which I don't think is quite the same as a Chase Young jersey walking around, you know what I mean? It's part of our history. Um whereas Chase Young was a a Washington bus. I don't necessarily can't call his career a bus because I think he's actually, you know, he might end up with a pr pretty decent career when it's all said and done. Now, was it number two overall pit career? No. No, because we're we were hoping that he was gonna be the new Bosa or something.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:07

Because if it were if it were gonna be that number two, he we would have signed him to that second contract.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:15

Yeah, yeah. But whose jersey are you buying this year?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:21

I honestly don't know. I mean, I do as I already have a McLaurin jersey. As we've already talked, I I do love the the new black jerseys, but right now I don't know if there is a player that I need to have. I I I don't know because I already have a JD jersey, so I don't need another one of those. You know, because we got those in the throwback in the throwback uniform last year, the the white throwback. But right now, no, I don't think there is a player right this minute that I need to get.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:58

Now, I would like to see him play first, but like I would get a Styles jersey if he plays really well. Um if he plays really well in this first year and gets like defensive rookie of the year or is in the running for it and plays all the games. Well, yeah, I mean it You know what I mean, but then you run the risk of that him becoming the Chase Young jersey.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:21

Um right now, this minute, no, there's no one that I need to buy a jersey for.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:29

I I would lean towards styles. I'm leaning towards um there's part of me that like I'm a I'm a fan of Louvu. So a number four Louvre jersey, I think, would be pretty cool, but like how long are you gonna wear it? I don't know. I don't know. But he's been around now. This is his third year, so um and it's a Krosky Merit, a Krosky Merit jersey. It seems like too many letters on the back of my back.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:56

No, and uh for the same reason, like you know, I'm a I'm a big McCaffrey guy.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:01

I wouldn't get his jersey because at least not yet, because they if he signs that second deal with us, you would yeah, honestly, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:10

But like right now, no, because they really haven't given him the opportunity, and he hasn't shown what he could do that makes it worth getting a jersey. Yeah, if all that makes sense, yeah. Um, the free agents we just got like because just because you're high on someone doesn't mean that they're jersey worthy, which is the whole basis of the conversation.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:37

Yeah, they gotta they gotta I gotta be a fan of their play on the field first and foremost. And then after that, um but you but at the end of the day, you just want to feel like for whatever reason, if I wanted to wear this jersey 10 years from now, like I want that option. So it's you gotta have to pick a selective player. Uh because there's a bunch of dumb fucks out there that that uh picked up a Hainsworth jersey as soon as we sign a device.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:06

And for the whole and for the whole purpose of the conversation, you know, yes, I have a Chase Young jersey, but on game day when I'm deciding what jersey I want to wear, that's like the last one in the rotation that I would choose. Yeah. I would choose every other one.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:25

Is it 99?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:28

I I would chur I would choose quite frankly, any other jersey that I have before I choose.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:35

And all the reasons we're mentioning right now is why you can get a D B Debo Samuels jersey at the Dix Outlet right now for like 15 bucks. Yeah. And that's it.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:45

There's a plethora of them. It's been a couple weeks since I've I've done a drop by there, but uh yeah, there's an abundance for sure.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:54

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, all right. What do you think? You think this is a podcast?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:00

Yeah, I think so. You know, I think we can I think we can wrap this up and wait patiently for Tom's critiques.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:07

Yeah, and then uh our next podcast. So in the offseason here, we've been pacing out for once a month.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:14

We're just gonna do it whenever it feels appropriate.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:17

I will say if we sign a wide receiver, then that we'll have things to say. In which case we might jump onto a podcast a little bit earlier. But uh until that next time, it's just Mike and I counting down the days when our Command the Community podcast can hit the road again on the way to our next game. So we appreciate all of you guys listening. Um feel free to partake in the instant replay segment of the podcast and give us our cur your corrections or your critique, or by all means give us an excuse to add a new segment. Just uh give us some fan mail. Tell us who you are, where you're listening from, um, what you agree or disagree with. But we appreciate you all listening, and we will talk to you next time. Hail to the Redskins.