Grant and Danny
Our Burning Questions For The Commanders In 2024
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I don't know the answer to that. I'm fascinated to see. And also do we even need it? Is it something that's even essential to the softfence? Is this a running back tight end and term of chlorine production? Or are they spreading you wide? Everyone's going to get a chance to eat? I have no idea about that receiver spot. Is Brandon Coleman just going to be rolled out with the starters at left tackle? I think there's a chance of that for sure. I don't think you list them top of the depth chart. If you're not ready for those questions, at least, like the default should actually be to do the opposite of that unless they're just going to come out and say, Oh, we did it in alphabetical order. It's going to be Lucas. They're battling, whatever, but six foot four, 320 pounds. A lot of teams viewed him as a guard. Washington said, Uh-uh. This guy can play tackle. He's pretty athletic. He's got a huge wingspan and giant hands and arms. To me, looks like a guard body, but he moves like a tackle. I was so impressed by him at practice for a couple days out there in a row. And then he was just like gone. We didn't see him again. But what if Brandon Coleman is the big fella at left tackle right away and plays well? We got a whole different combo to have about that O line, which that hurts. Is it dynamic? Zach hurts of a couple of years ago that can do a little things after the catch. Little wiggle, little all around football type game. Or is he, I think it was Aaron shots. Maybe you called him this. I could be wrong. I apologize if I miss miss attributing a catch and fall guy. Not that interested in the catching fall guys. You've honest with you. I'm more interested in rumbling after the catch, punishing smaller members of the secondary after the catch, making guys miss after the catch, being a threat after the catch, not catch and fall. But who's arts is Andrew Wiley going to be able to hold off all comers at right tackle? Let's say Coleman does soon take the left tackle job away from Cornelius Lucas. Why not play Lucas if you like him so much at right tackle? Lucas is played on the right side of bunch. He's been a swing tackle, right? If he's been the left tackle starter over Coleman and you feel so good about Coleman that Lucas loses his job, if so facto, doesn't that mean that he might make more sense at right tackle than Wiley who struggled a bunch, including in the preseason where it wasn't pretty all the time. I just, I'm not writing him in pen yet. I think he's the starter. I get that. But if Coleman ends up starting at left tackle, I would like to see what it looks like with Coleman and Lucas. That might be your best offensive line. Are we going to hurry up all the time? Back in the day, the Buffalo Bills realized, Hey, we're really good with in a two minute drill with Jim Kelly getting to the line, calling the plays, getting to Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed, James Lofton and company, not allowing the other team to to sub and to change things out, making guys tired. If we dictate to them, well, they ran it all the time pretty much. They began in the night. I think it was the 89 AFC title game and kind of continued. This has been what we saw in the preseason. They don't huddle and get to the line and they kind of keep going with some tempo. I love that personally. I know a lot of old school football people are going, you got to use the full 40 and run the dang ball. None of that matters unless you get first downs, shaking to the egg style. But are we going hurry up all the time? Can't wait to see it. Is Washington going to be able to generate enough pass rush to bail out what is a very average secondary in terms of personnel. And does that pass rush have to come from the interior as it has the last few years or can they actually get some pressure off the edges? Dorence Armstrong. Nobody really knows this guy yet. We've seen him almost zero in the preseason, the former Dallas Cowboy, Cleo and Farrell. What about Javante Jean Baptiste or Dante Fowler, the speed edge rusher who we had on the show told me he thinks he could quietly have a really, really good season. He's primed for a breakout again. He had a 11 sack year, a few seasons ago, things he can get back to that level. Is it have to be Payne Allen, Newton, Mathis in between the guards pushing the pocket or might they actually get something off the edges and who other than Armstrong solidifies themselves as being able to rush the quarterback? I would bet on Fowler, but it's wide open. Are we exclusively a shotgun team? I know we saw that in Arizona for Cliff Kingsbury and company, but some people thought, Hey, maybe that's because Colin Murray is about five for three numbers approximate. Well, Jay Daniels is not a 6465, but he came from an offense where that's pretty much what they did. We saw a lot of that in the preseason. How much under center are we getting and how much is it? No, no, no, we're in the shotgun all the time with a running back, maybe to one side of the other, a lot of read option, a lot of zone read, a lot of, you know, kind of RPOs based on those specific looks. How much shotgun and how close to 100% is Brian Robinson said throughout the off season, he was and he didn't use these words, but he made it pretty clear. He's held back by Eric, the enemy, the amount of commitment to the run and the idea that they just didn't want him to be a big factor last year. All right, well, they're going to run the ball now. My burning question is, what's in the tank for Brian Robinson that we haven't seen? My burning question is, how much better are you than what you've put on film to this point? If you look at efficiency for him, he grades out, I would say, well, but certainly not near the top of the NFL, kind of a middling tailback. If you look at things, metrics like yards per attempt or rushing yards over expected, he was kind of similar year to year. It was 4.0 yard per carry guy. If in fact, it's going to happen, it probably has to start happening right now. So is this the year burning question? Does Brian Robinson show that what he talked about all off season commit to me? Believe it me, and I'll take you where you want to go. Is he able to deliver the goods? There's a television show that you absolutely sleep on back in the day called Murphy Brown, sorry, Candice Bergen. The whole one of the themes of the show, she had a new assistant pretty much every week and they run some funny guest stars and go a lot of different things like an office, right? Yeah, I was like, definitely remember it, but I never watched it. Yeah, so it was actually pretty well done, pretty funny. Well, lady, always very current. Yeah, she was she was really good. The assistant job constantly turned over. That's Washington center position. There have been approximate. I look us up approximate numbers here. In the last few seasons, seven trillion centers. They can't get that position, right? They've tried, they've signed, they've promoted internally. They had had guys that also play guard kind of look over, enter Tyler Beottish, hold over from from Dallas, not hold over, but a guy that came with Dan Quinn from Dallas to hopefully anchor that position. He's not all world, but at least solidifying that spot, adding some cohesion on that offensive line to help out their young rookie quarterback. Hopefully they found a solution there to a position that's been a bug a boo. Shout out to Matt on Twitter, who sent me an update on the weather in Tampa. He says, for Sunday, it looks like 88 degrees with a 60% chance of rain. Yuck. In fact, during the game, four p.m. at kickoff, about 40% chance. And then the chances are 60% for the rest of the window. Is it a bit of a hot take that I actually hope it's disgusting and rains a lot there? Yes. Here's my thinking. I'm not so sure. I hope the Washington's better, defending the past. I'd rather it be a little bit mucked up. I don't want Mike Evans and Godwin and company to be able to run free. I'd like less throwing, which I get. And I think the more rain when they're on defense throughout the year, probably the better. Trying to hang with receivers. Yeah. I just want Jaden Daniels on dry fields as often as possible. Oh, I smell what you're cooking there. And yeah, I also think him running around and making plays. I don't need him slipping and sliding. Just give me 72 and sunny. Let's see what the kid looks like. I don't really care what happens on defense in the first quarter or two of the game or maybe even in the first quarter of the season. If you want to look big picture, I just I want to see Jaden Daniels and I want to see it pretty, but it's going to be very hot. And it sounds like there are chances of rain in Tampa Bay. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name of your price tool from progressive. It works just the way it sounds. 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