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Sam Cosmi Gets A Huge 4-Year Extension w/ Washington
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He had the number seven grade in the run game, according to pro football focus, and he played the 12th most snaps in the entire NFL at the guard position, because for the first time he proved really durable, played in all 17 games, played at a high level, and at 25 going into his prime, he got paid. Love that. This is one of those things where, you look back and I will still say on the hole, on the balance sheet, the Marty Party and Ron Rivera were terrible at player acquisition, evaluation, contracts, drafting, et cetera. This is one of their wins. Now, they drafted him as a tackle, so it's downgraded slightly, but still you identify a core player whose arrow was on the rise, as you rightly said, and he's in his mid 20s. He's playing better than he did two years ago at this point. He's playing better than he was a year ago at this point. This is now a really, really good asset that you have. You keep guys like that around, even if it wasn't your guy. You quickly figure out this is a guy that you want to build around. So good for them, right call. We were sort of wondering that in a critical way, but kind of wondering, "Hey, is this coming?" This seems pretty reasonable. It seems like you'd want to do that. And before week one, you kind of get that business attended to and get it done and lock him up. Really good player and happy for the dude. - Yeah, I mean, from a playing standpoint and on the field, he's their best offensive lineman, and I don't know that it's particularly close at this point. And you can make the case, he's one of the best players on the team. You know, for a few years, that's been John Allen, Doron Payne, and there's a conversation thereafter. I think Sam Cosmey's really closed the gap in that area and with Terry McClure, and those are the core guys in the offensive huddle at this point. But as you said personally, just for the person that we've had on the show, and I've talked to you out there a few times, really, really entertaining interview and just an honest guy and very candid. He's 25, he's going into his prime. He's married now. He's kind of growing up in front of our eyes in DC. He's got a baby girl. So his wife, Blair, and the nine month old baby, I believe Clara, you're not going anywhere. You're setting up shop, you are digging in in the DMV, and you're now a Texas guy who's going to call this place home at least half of the year for the next several years. So I like that, and this is what you want to do. We've seen a lot of teams this offseason prioritize signing their own guys, both the good teams that have done this for a long time, and then some bad teams that are trying to get good, like the New England Patriots, who have extended, I don't know, seven or eight of their own players. Washington over the years has not done a good enough job at this, mostly because they haven't drafted enough guys that they want to keep around. They haven't hit in the draft frequently enough. So I think now you can say, well, that's a win for Ron Rivera and his staff. They drafted him as a tackle. He ended up at guard. So there's an asterisk there 'cause they thought he would be their long-term right tackle. But I don't think we need to get cute and look for style points, especially with the Rivera era that went-- - You got a good player and a good dude. - Exactly. - You do it. - I say this about Brandon Sheriff all the time. And people talk about him 'cause remember it, number five, I think that was McLuhan's first pick in his first draft. He was taken as a tackle out of Iowa and about an hour into his first practice at Training Camp Ever, he was moved to guard because Morgan Moses showed up after having a whale of an off-season, going into his second year with the organization. And they realized our best line right now is Moses at right tackle and Sheriff as a plus guard. And so they just made the move. And a lot of people have suggested since then that that was not a slam dunk pick where the value wasn't good at number five. And I don't really play that game. I'm in the business of getting good football players, period. And so with Sam Cosby, I don't care if he drafted him as a tackle or a guard, you've got a pro bowler. Hasn't made that yet, but he will. And maybe eventually an all pro, which they don't have around here. I'm not gonna ask any question. - Right, yeah, it's the road wasn't paved and straight. We had a few twists and turns there, but you're right, we got to the point where there's a good player, a good court guy that's going to be here. I'm a fan. I mean, he's in that company with guys like Quentin Nelson, you know, landed Dickerson in Philadelphia. There's a whole bunch of guys in that 25, 26 age range who are making a pretty good chunk of change as you know, kind of Litchpin guards there on rosters that are either improving or are already pretty good. And it gets to the point where eventually you don't love the idea of like, I'd rather pay a tackle over paying a guard. I'd rather pay a wide receiver over paying a guard, you know, a quarterback, a quarterback, a few different positions. But you're not in a spot where you can just sort, letting guys go and having their talent, a talented replacement, you know, waiting in the wings. So at this stage, it makes a lot of sense to me to retain him, 'cause again, he's done everything, he's never been asked of him. He's performed well and the air was still trending up. But a guy that, you know, was at one point learning a position, now he's learned it. Now he's one of the better players in the league at that spot. 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First online real moneyweights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued is now a throwable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandool.com. Gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. - 84 million. - 74 million over four years, 18 and a half per for Sam Cosmey as one of the best young guards in football. So let's make this quick list then, Danny. How many players right now on the commanders would you say are better than Sam Cosmey? I think it's a very, very short list. But if you're just ranking their roster one to 53, how high up could Cosme show up? So start the list. - So you're not gonna like the answer. He's my number one. I think he's their best player. I think he's better at his position than anybody else is at theirs. - I think if you're forecasting out with potential and growth opportunities, I could see that. Based on back of the football card, I would still say John Allen, who's made Pro Bowls. - Mm-hmm. - Duran Payne, Terry McLorin, just 'cause they've actually played in Pro Bowl games. - Right. - Kind of gotten that acclaim. But you looked at it a different way, which I think is really intuitive. Where does each guy rank at their own position right now in the NFL? - At some point, John Allen was fringe top five at the tackle. I don't think he is right now. Duran Payne coming off of his 11 plus sacks was in that conversation. Fell off with some of the counting stats as a pass rusher last year. Probably would slide down the board a little bit, right? I would say the same thing about McLorin, who last year yards per catch some of the explosivity metrics dropped off some. Still very good. But in that 15 to 20 range at wide receiver, maybe in the NFL. And there are great players at that position. It's probably more competitive than the spot that Cosme plays. But in a position where there are 64 starters, because there's two guards on every team, Sam Cosme is a top 10 guard in football. - And that's kind of my point. So for the toughest debate to me, it's not, again, I love Terry McLorin, but you start going down the list of Jefferson Adams, Lamb, St. Brown, A.U., DJ Brown, A.J. Brown, Tyree Kill, Jalen Wattle. You get a goal while before you get to Terry McLorin. Again, really good player, Gladys here, he's my dude, but there are a whole bunch of folks that would go ahead of him if people were being objective, you know, sort of look around and think why. The tougher sell is the one you mentioned, is defensive tackle. And at points, you've seen both of those guys talking Allen and Payne be in that top 10 type range. We draw on Payne, had a top 10 season. A couple of years ago, they got on page. John Allen did that before. But right now this minute coming into the year, I don't know if either one of those guys is top 10. Again, not a bad player by any stretch and there's good a tandem as you're going to find, but maybe they're both sort of in the teens. And my point is this may be a little bit bullish, but I put Cosme in that top 10 guard group. I mean, it's hard. I'm not breaking down offensive line play from, you know, the interior offensive line play from every single squad at this stage, but that's kind of my sense of it at this point. So that's how I come to that conclusion. - Dan Quinn just at his daily press conference out in Ashburn as the commanders are getting ready for the Bucks today at their team facility. This is what DQ had to say about the new extension for his guard, Sam Cosme. - That's a cool day for him, for his wife, Blair, his daughter, Claire, who were here. And so for Adam and his staff to get that done prior to the season, that's a big deal. And this guy is a commander, you know, through and through, he's tough, he plays square, he's strong and we're really, you know, fortunate that he'll be an anchor inside, you know, for years to come, it's a big deal. - Is this something you and I talked a lot about all-off season that needed to get done? I hadn't given up on it, I just kind of moved on and forgotten about it, honestly, because about a week ago I turned the page into regular season mode, but them getting this out of the way was a no-brainer. And there's just no reason not to do this. I remember back in 1999, when Champ Bailey was drafted out of Georgia, and at that time there was this culture going into year one of the old owner. In 2000, when they spent $100 million, where they took care of other people's guys but not their own, and so four years later, when it was time for Champ to get paid, he had watched Deont Sanders and Mark Carrier, and one guy after another coming here in the secondary to get their money, and he had become one of the best players in the league at his position, on his way to what would eventually be all-of-ame career. And he went to the team and he said, let's go, it's time to pay me, and they dragged their feet. And it became so difficult. The relationship became so bad between he and the club that they ended up trading him for Clinton Portis with a draft pick, obviously. And I bring that up just to say, you wanna be the organization where everybody knows, if you deliver on the promise, if you deliver the goods after being taken, you will be rewarded. That's what the healthy organizations do. It's whatever, and I don't just mean in football, right? But I bring you in, I give you these goals, here's what we're trying to accomplish. You go out and get it done, you get your raise, you get to grow. That's what everybody's looking for in life in some ways. What's next? How do I become the best version of myself? And to reward Sam Cosby was a no-brainer, but the fact that they did it just tells you that they had their priorities in order. - And they get it, yeah. I think it's well said. Now, you can't, as Ryan Zimmerman famously told us, you can't pay everybody. So there're gonna be some times where, you know, a good player has to let him walk at the expense of maybe somebody else. But when you're in this position, right, when you're in the building phase, what better building block than, as you said, the guy that's, we said, hey, please turn in A-work. And he, here's my A-home work. I did it. I turned in the A-work. Then you reward that guy. That makes sense. 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