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We'll get some more names trickling out here at the wire as the deadline just hit the form your 53-man roster in DC. So we'll cover that with cakes coming up in just a few minutes on the commanders. But let's start our Beltway Blitz. The next last night with the Yankees in town, debuted Dylan Cruz. He took an over three to draw walk. Charlie Slows was on the call. Charlie, what'd you make of Cruz's first ever game? I thought he was very poised. He looked very comfortable. He looked like he'd done it before. The bat where he walked, he looked some close pitches over. He didn't really chase anything out of the strike zone. And you know, it was kind of a routine night for him like he'd done it before. Thating second of the order last night. Baby's dropping up down today to the number seven spot. Maybe take a little pressure off. There's any against the right-hander he's facing today. But you know, all in all, he talked about it being a great day. The only thing he wished that would have happened is they won the game. Charlie, you've been there for these milestone games. Whether it was Strasbourg getting called up or, you know, playoff games there, Nat's Park, World Series games, et cetera. Last night didn't feel like the 132nd game of the season, right? It was more special than that. Both with Soto in town and, you know, a bunch of these young gnats, sort of the new era ushering that in, hitting to the top of the order. What did last night mean? Oh, it's definitely you're moving forward in this rebuild with the future nucleus of this team starting to take shape. The players that you hope they're going to be part of this team for the next decade. And, you know, as Ryan Zimmer and his said to us, when he was on with us last night, the group that's going to make the next run of contention for a long time. So I think we're really just scratching the surface here so far. And, you know, more to come. I think, you know, the fact the Nationals have used only nine starting pitchers this year, despite the interest they've had with Kate Cavalli not making it back. Trevor Williams getting hurt, Josac Roy getting hurt. But then the guys that they brought in have been in the rotation all year. And so I think that's a big step forward for the future. Maybe the most positive thing you take out of this season for the Nationals is how far along the starting pitching is. Charlie, what did you make of the response to Juan Soto returning to Nat Spark? He got the largest ovation of the night in the first inning. Yeah, there's no question. I think people from New York who cover the Yankees say, well, it's different when you return to your home stadium, your whole your original club home stadium. When you're in a Yankee uniform, you'll get food. And I said, there is absolutely no chance that a million that Juan Soto would ever get food in this park, no matter what he had done after he left the Nationals. And that was proven to be true. I mean, he is who he is. Great player. One of the biggest moments in franchise history is hit off Josh Hader. Three runs score and they win the wild card game. And the big moments he had in the home runs he hit in the World Series. He'll always be loved here. It's the case with most everybody who was a part of that World Championship. They can never do wrong here. No way. Lost in all that, you know, sort of under the headline is, Mitchell Parker's final line didn't look that unbelievable to me, Charlie. But I was encouraged by what I saw last night after a couple rough outings. What did you see from it? Well, I thought he pitched well. I mean, the second inning jumped his pitch count off and, you know, that's had a couple of miscues in the inning. One for him when he dropped the ball covering first. But he got out of that bases loaded jam. You know, he didn't really seem to be much affected after giving up the home run to start the game to play victorious on a 3-1 pitch. And, you know, it's a really tough lineup to get through to navigate through. And I thought he, you know, did a good job. You know, they're watching his pitch count at this point of the year. So he's over 80 and four innings. They decided to go to the bullpen. But, you know, he certainly gave you a respectable performance. And he's done that a lot this year. So again, he's one of the guys that you look at and you could say, yeah, he can be riding your rotation next year. That's what you want to do. Charlie, I haven't seen the lineup against Garrett Cole. Is it the same as it was yesterday for Davey with Abrams, Cruz and Wood 1-2-3? And then also, what can you tell us about tonight? Well, you're going to have Abrams and Wood at the top of the order. He dropped Cruz down the seventh. I haven't talked to Davey about that yet. But that's what he decided to do. He gets to the left-hand hitters up against that tough right-hander at the start of the lineup. So we'll see how that plays out. But you're going to get Woodmore at bats. I know Grant, you want to see Woodbatt as high in the order as possible. As often as we can. Get more and more at bats. We'll see if this is just for today that Cruz is batting seventh and in the lineup that Davey's going with or whether there's something he'll stay with. I still think Cruz is going to end up at the top of the order. Maybe even a lead-off batter for a while. And ultimately, that could be Jacob Young, too. Maybe not this year. But if he progresses as a hitter with that speed, you're going to want to get him up more and more. So, I mean, you're seeing the nucleus of what's to come. Now these babes just have to play and, you know, learn and learn and learn and get that experience. Charlie, thank you as always, man. Have a great call tonight. All right, guys. Talk to you soon. Sounds good, buddy. See you soon. Hit that NFL sounder, please. Our Balben Brown joins us to go around the NFL on Cut Down Day, a busy one. Ben, League wide, big picture story. Anything jump out at you today with all these roster trimmings? I mean, obviously, you know, some guys really thought we're going to pan out or do certain things at the NFL level, very much falling, you know, down on the wayside, you know, situations that did, you know, not really taking advantage of, you know, that new opportunity either. So, I think there's a lot of, you know, a lot of moving cars. Obviously, some of the wide receiver moves, you know, I think, you know, Kadere's Tony, you know, some of the chief's trimmings and those sorts of things. Terrace Marshall getting dropped from the Panthers. Like, there are guys that are going to be on the streets that I think can run some NFL snaps. It's just like, you know, correct fit and really trying to figure things out in this next stop. It really didn't work out for some of them in the first. Couple of big names on the pup list to start the year for their respective teams. Odell Beckham Jr is going to miss four games. It looks like for the Dolphins and then TJ Hockinson with the Viking, same situation. Any surprise on either of those two fronts? No, I do think, you know, just the timing of Hockinson's injury, you know, that was one that, you know, seemingly was going to get, you know, pushed back at least, you know, the four weeks and then kind of figure out from there. Odell Beckham Jr, I think in a lot of ways, like just where he's been at, you know, over the past couple of seasons, I guess, you know, it does seem like a situation where I don't know if he's ever going to get back anywhere close to what teams are even expecting of him. I think Nick Chub, for me, I think you saw Deonta Forman get cut, you know, Nick Chub going to start on pup as well. Like Jerome Court is kind of the one guy in that particular backfield. Everyone else, I would say, has injured in a lot of ways. So I think that's an interesting one to monitor. I very much think they are a team that has to be in the veteran, you know, running back market. And I would be shocked if they enter this season, kind of, you know, given like, you know, maybe they have one or two really healthy guys in their roster at the running back position right now. Ben, I feel like the 49ers are in this game of chicken, both with IU and Trent Williams. And they're over the salary cap, as of now, by tens of millions of dollars. This is kind of something I feel like nobody's talking about. There's an assumption it's just going to get worked out because they're a Super Bowl contender. But is it? What do we think? Yeah, I mean, that's the real difficulty and, you know, and it very much seems like that's the reason why the 49ers are kind of in this, you know, win now mentality. Maybe they can kind of keep things, you know, under the lockdown, you know, for next season in 2025. But, you know, you're starting to talk about property, either an extension or, you know, big, big money contract, but he's going to be a free agent in 2020 strict, 2026 unrestricted as well. And, you know, how many years does Trent Williams actually have left in the tank? I do think he is, you know, out of non quarterback, maybe the most important offensive player to a specific team scheme. So I think really getting Trent Williams in the fold is absolutely critical to very long-term success. And I do think if you hear of one of, you know, Brandon IU or Trent Williams actually missing games, that's when things really are going to get worrisome. For the 49ers. But I think overall, they do still seem like, you know, one or two injuries could really do real things. And I think they are a lot more vulnerable than what's like the Betty markets kind of projecting for their outcome in 2024. Benjamin Brown on the NFL, the Grant and Danny Beltway Blitz here. How about the NFC East, top of the division Cowboys and Eagles seem to be the two teams. Everybody debates between did yesterday's CD lamb contract change? How you feel about the pecking order at all? I don't know if it changes the pecking order. I do think it at least makes me slightly more optimistic about the Cowboys not having this like really downside sort of, you know, the basis falling out sort of expectation on the 2024 season. I do think it's some ways that could happen. But I think at least going into the season with one of CD lamb or Dak Prescott locked in long-term answers at least some questions of where they're going to head, you know, in the next three to three to five years. And I think overall, that maybe seeks to a little positivity. But I don't think it closes the gap on, you know, where they're at in relation to the Eagles. And I still very much think, you know, the commanders, you know, in particular, have some exciting upside type cases where they could at least land, you know, in the thick of things come playoff time. And I very much think that, you know, the CD lamb extension doesn't really change that all can be either. So although the Cowboys might get a little bump on their downside expectation, I still think they are a team that really needs Dak Prescott playing at an MVP type level to kind of win one or two of these playoff games that they've not gotten to so far in the past of the season. Ben, thank you as always, buddy. Talk soon. Thanks. I appreciate you, pal. Hit that local 53 sounder, dares. My God, that's Johnny Cakes, all of those music from the brand new radio program debuting here in mornings. I'll want to six having the fan. The sports junkies is the name of the program. Cakes joins us here on the old beltway blitz. Cakesy, cut down to any surprises. Any anybody you're standing on the table for to remain. Give me your thoughts. I think KJ Henry kind of caught people by surprise. People were kind of rate semi raving about him in camp. I thought he would be one of the few Ron guys to actually make it through. But I think the overarching trend is, if you were picked by Ron, the new guys in charge are going to have the extra powerful microscope on you throughout. So looking like Jamie Davis is going to make it, looking like Forbes are going to make it. But I wouldn't certainly have long futures bets on either of those guys to remain past this season. I think the jury is still out to see how they perform. Forbes clearly a disappointing rookie season. Davis, the guy who's a tweener, they're just trying to figure out the role for him going forward. So the big takeaways, if you're drafted by Ron, you got a target on your back and you better you better over perform with Adam Peters in town now. Cakes, I talked myself into Mark Davis, Brian, maybe being on my roster. If I was the GM, Grant Peters over here on my way home from the artist formerly known as FedEx field on Sunday night, now Northwest Stadium. Cakes over there and land over Maryland. But were you surprised Mark Davis? Brian didn't make it. Not really. I mean, the guy hasn't taken NFL meaningful snaps in what six seasons. I like taking a flyer on a guy who's one of Danny's real weaknesses is over over hyping big, tall, strong athletic specimen. I know Danny, that's his kryptonite. That's correct. I kind of fall for those guys too, especially when they're red zone targets. And you know, you don't have a bunch of big guys on the roster outside of Zach Earks that are catching passes for the team. So I thought he might have had an outside shot. But the fact that he's been, you know, let's be honest, he's been on a football odyssey, not odyssey, the company that employs us odyssey. Right. But is it audacious? Is it audacious though? Or is it an odd, we're on an odyssey, but we're it's an audacious for everybody? Yes, it is. Especially when it's not a word. So Kixi, help me through this lens. I can't stand with things. Don't make sense to me. I never let it go. I'm like a dog with the mailman's tuckus here. I don't know what this local 53 led bad and Peter, which is very handsome. He has great hair and he's smarter than me. I don't understand what they're doing at receiver. I have basically said, Hey, there's a giant five alarmed fire here at this position. That was with John Dodson. Now they're without John Dodson. And that doesn't seem to be much urgency to provide Jaden Daniels with more weapons. What am I not seeing and what don't I understand? Uh, Danny, I think you are as you like to term it, you're standing squarely in the circle of correctness, my friend. All you want to do is surround your young signal caller, your rookie signal caller with as much talent as possible. I look and I know that that all the media is a Kias is feel good story, but Danny, you and I, we and Grant, we all played the fantasy footballs. I mean, the guys, he's a 30 to 35 type of catch guy. He's not not an impact player. Now, can he have a bigger role in this offense with Dachshund out? Sure. Are we going to gamble on DeYami Brown? I mean, that's, that always seems like a thin bet. Yeah, I'm, I'm kind of with you, Danny, underwhelmed by the wide receiver room, especially with Dachshund on the move to Philadelphia. Speaking of fantasy cakes, Mr. Allville, give me one of your sleepers that you're liking in your drafts this year. Yes, because that is the drafts tomorrow night and I need the scouting report. Yeah, Danny, see, Danny has been one over. I know that years ago when he joined the home of his league and I told him, I said, Danny, this is a no wavers league. Are you cool with that? And he was resisting at first, but now he loves the free for all just madness of the league. But anyway, sleeper, this is the guy I love, especially with the news that Nick Chubb is going to start the season on the pup list. I love me some Jerome Ford, like in the ninth or 10th round, like especially if you load up on wide outs early in your draft, Jerome Ford is going to be heavily involved. We saw what he did last year when Chubb was sidelined. I love him as like my RB2 or a sexy flex pickup. That's it. That's a big old sleeper right there from your pal cake. But you don't realize you may have been crossed away from your radar, but you are in the presence of the grand champion of the homies, like defending champion. I'm very aware. My team was a borderline jog or not as LeBron James likes to call it until I ran into Danny's team in the football final last year. So yeah, Danny, I took my cap to you, sir. Isn't it money league? It is. It is. So I go I go by either your Royal Highness or your grace is fine. His lordship would accept as well. Hey, Cakesy, have you checked on this box here over the last few minutes? Sounds like Trace McSorley just got waived. Oh, that is tragic news, man. I look, the show is basically forced to root for trade. One trace scrappy trace McSorley. Couldn't be a nicer kid. His family's very nice. I've met the parents a couple of times. I hope that his performance with the commanders against the Patriots maybe gets them a look on another team or he winds up the practice squad. I root for the guy. But let's be honest, he's going to be probably second or third or second or third quarterback throughout his career. But look, you can make a handsome living as a backup quarterback in the NFL. Just look at one Marcus Mariota, amongst others. Super final thing you may or may not be aware, but your boy old Fannie Mugi. I built a pickleball court in my backyard. It's official invitation to one Johnny cake. So I go over a place of pickle on the sport. Oh, that is that is a look. He must be a baller. He's got a pickleball court in his backyard. It's not. It's not a what do you want to call it? Like it's not poorly put together. Yeah, it ain't cheap sport court in Washington. They did the work. Now I'll tell you cake. See, we're not going to eat and we're not going anywhere for a while, but we did it. We put it up and it was under the guise of us for the children to play on. It's not it's for me. Hey, look, if you're going to be house poor, you might as well be house poor with a baller pickleball court in your backyard. My friend, I'm going to look at my schedule and clear it and find find a date to come out and hit the old pickle balls with one, uh, his lordship home, his league champion, Danny Huhei. I'm going to wear my weighted vest and my sweat proof pickleball glove that I picked up a couple weeks ago. Hold on. Are you a rucksack guy? Are you a weighted best guy? Weighted best guy. Weighted now. I'm a weighted best guy, but only during walks with my dog. I haven't done it yet on the pickleball court. Get enhanced your cardio flakesy, enhanced your cardio with me in the backyard. No one to watch us. No one to spy on us. No paparazzi taking photos. You know what? Danny, it's a date. It's a tape. Danny, Dave. Sounds like a stand. All right, cake. See, be good, bro. Love you, buddy. All right, boys. Home is late tomorrow night. Don't sleep, Danny. I got it. That is your belt lay blitz on G and D. I want to hit two big NFL storylines. The lamb contract in Dallas and how that alters the NFC East. Also, the Patriots apparently still don't know who their starting quarterback is, but you've heard Bill Bella checked in or lobski and some others weigh in on this on national TV. Want to hop on that as well. And we'll get you the latest from Ashburn Cutdown Day for the commanders. Where else would you rather be than right here with your boys? Grant and Danny. The seasons may be changing, but the deals of the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl, Tasha McKia. And I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings events where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right. Everything is on sale now. Shot from sleek sedans to rugged SUVs and sporty convertibles. The sharpest rides has the perfect ride to match your fall adventures. Plus, with their exclusive financing options, getting behind the wheel of your dream car has never been easier. 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So the final cutlist included Kaz Allen, the wide receiver running back who was an undrafted free agent last year. Also Cole Turner, the tight end who was a fifth round pick by Ron Rivera and company last season. Both of those names were among those that people were waiting to hear results on. That means if you look at the initial 53-man roster for the commanders, they will have two undrafted free agents making the team in tight end. Colson Yankoff who made the roster and Tyler Owens, the safety who played so well in camping in the preseason, wears number 40. He's very long. He's a physical guy and he also was one of the stars as far as character name goes in the new movie Twisters. He was played by Glenn Powell. If you feel it, chase it. Tyler Owens making the roster. So a couple of undrafted free agents that we will see as we get closer to week one, how much the roster changes in short order moving ahead, but we can go through the 53-man here in its entirety. But any thoughts right off the bat from you? Yeah, Yankoff making it is surprising to me that they kept that fourth tight end, at least in at least the Netherlands that it wasn't Colton. And then it wasn't Colton. Yeah, you know, they brought in Yankoff. So that was sort of that was that. If they're going to keep a fourth, it was going to be their guy. If there was, if there was a default, but Kaz Allen, not making it surprises me. I think they probably believe he can be a practice squad guy. Owens kind of forced the issue here, his way onto the team. I mean, I know it's a, I know it's a lot of safeties, but some of these guys are going to be safeties in name only, you know, they'll walk into the box here and there. Maybe sometimes, you know, a slot corner, a versatile type player, but that secondary 11 defensive backs, maybe one or two more than you used to saying, but I think that's maybe where one of the strengths is a ton of DB's 11. All right. Let's go through it. Three quarterbacks, Jaden Daniels, Marcus Marioda, Jeff Driscoll, all three or six, four, not a whole lot to dig into there. We kind of knew what was going to happen at the quarterback position. Running backs, they did keep three with it being about as chalky as it could have been. Nothing fun or surprising. You have Brian Robinson, Austin Eckler, who we had on the show one hour ago. If you missed the interview with him in the three o'clock hour, go grab the podcast when we're done tonight at the fan DC.com. Third running back in is Jeremy McNichols, who they signed. He has been around forever. Boise state product eight years in the league, Long Beach, California native, a five nine, two, oh five packs a punch. He'll be the third running back for now. They kept six wide receivers among them. Terry McClellan, Alama Deza Kias, Deami Brown, Luke McCaffery, and then the last two in, we said there was a competition there, veterans, Jameson Crowder and Byron Pringle. The biggest wide receiver on the team is the six foot two inch rookie McCaffery, who's not even listed at 200 pounds. The heaviest receiver on the team, believe it or not, is 210 pound Terry McClellan. There's just not a lot of size. No, not a lot of beef at the receiver spot. I mean, they were given guys looks. They wanted some of that clearly, but you know, they didn't feel like Brian was ready for it or Tremaine was up to snuff. I still expect something to happen there. Again, I don't, I don't think a star is coming. I don't think it's an IU. I don't think it's a, you know, T Higgins or any of the headliners. I do think maybe one more move happens here before Sunday. Offensive line. The O line Danny is nine deep. The alphabetical order or the way it's listed here, I guess is numerical. Michael Deeter, Tyler Beaudish, Nick Allegretti, Andrew Wiley, Trent Scott, Brandon Coleman, Chris Paul, Sam Cosme, and Cornelius Lucas. So if there was a surprise or a last man in, I would say probably Paul, who can play both guard and tackle. He can play on both sides of the line. Clearly Deeter, who can play center and some guard on the interior is going to be a valuable backup. You know, the starting group already led by Sam Cosme at right guard. Allegretti is going to be the new starting left guard. Beaudish is going to be the center and then a tackle. They're hoping eventually Coleman is ready to take over into the season for starting left tackle Cornelius Lucas. But the swing tackle is Trent Scott. I think there's still some TBD there. Like those are the nine guys they kept of everyone that was a camp. I would not be surprised if they didn't rearrange some deck chairs at the back of the O line with some of the guys becoming available elsewhere. You would think so. Any surprises in that group too? Because none to me, that's kind of what I had it. Scott was the only guy I was uncertain about just given the health. I guess Chris Paul, maybe making it sure. It's not like there was anybody they cut on the offensive line that I would have kept over him. I just, you know, for him as a seventh round pick now to survive a regime change after he's basically been a bubble player for a couple of years, I'd say is a job well done. Agreed. Yeah, so his competition was most directly, you would say, just for a spot, Braden Daniels, Ricky Stromberg, you know, no one, no one to write home about there. So yeah, both drafted higher than he was, you know, for the record. Defensive line, they kept nine. Jamie Davis listed as a D linemen on the edge with Javante Jean Baptiste, Doris Armstrong, Armstrong, of course, will be there. The truest thing they have to a D and one, so to speak. They also have Clellen Farrell and Dante Fowler, all on the defensive line. So that's what the group is going to look like. It defensive tackle, Fedarian Mathis, Johnny Newton, and John Allen and Doron Payne among the nine. The only guy I didn't mention there was John Ridgeway. So both Ridgeway and Mathis making the initial roster surprising there, right? Very surprising. We all thought they'd keep eight. They also were supposedly linked to other teams in trade conversations about John Ridgeway. So this could just be a, hey, we're working some things out. We're still working the phones. I bet you both Ridgeway and Mathis are not on the roster when they play the box a week from Sunday. I think that you keep them right now because they're among your 53 best players, but that they're still ironing out that wrinkle. Yeah. So I echo that. Just when you hear that somebody's on the block, it just, it means that you feel like they've got a glut there. That's, that's to me, they're one position of strength, not just strength in numbers where there's a bunch of guys that are fine thinking secondary safety, most specifically, but that's the one position group that I actually think is good talking about defensive tackle with the two pro bowl headliners, guys that have not the same here, but obviously been to the pro bowl and then, you know, Ridgeway is a third and, and, and new, uh, newly met to Johnny Newton. Hopefully who's healthy at some point here in the not so distant future plus former second rounder for Darian Mathis. Line backers, they kept five. Here's what's intriguing about that. They list Dominique Hampton as a linebacker. Isn't that interesting? Dominique Hampton, who was drafted by this staff very obviously is a safety out of Washington. Now, I think this could just be some window dressing. Like do you want to list 12 DBs and basically seven safeties? Probably not. So it's positionless football. It's 2024. It doesn't really matter if you're calling them a linebacker or safety. He's playing around the box. Probably got some linebacker responsibilities, but this could just be some bookkeeping. But at linebacker, it's Frankie Louvoo. They also list Dante Fowler there. It was really an end if we're being serious edge and whatever to call it, not an off the ball guy necessarily, but he's listed there. So Louvoo Fowler, Dominique Hampton, Bobby Wagner, and then the beneficiary of the Jordan McGee injury is Michael Walker, who makes this team was a six, three, 230 pound fifth year player at a Fresno state who they added in free agency this off season. I believe he came over from the Detroit Lions, but five different players there make the roster at linebacker. So looking at that group, just again, there's not as it's not the normal depth we used to seeing at linebacker, even when this group in the previous regime didn't really value linebacker, you'd still see three, four, five, you know, six, a backup for everybody here. This is really three linebackers, one glorified edge rusher and a safety in that linebacker. I'm just telling you how times have changed, right? Where the base package is no longer three, the base package is two with an extra corner back or extra safety or somebody that's kind of a tweener to match what offenses are doing. I want to get into the secondary, which is where they had some of the biggest decisions they had to make. Walker, by the way, was the stealer last year is the three year Atlanta Falcon who played in Pittsburgh, by the way, and they brought over from the Steelers who made the roster. So he makes it in the linebacker room. Then we'll get to the defensive backs. I want to leave a little more time for this because I think this was where some of their biggest decisions got made. And a lot of guys that we thought were on the bubble battling for jobs, all kind of scratched and clawed their way in. They kept 11 dBs. So we'll get to that position group next. Specialists, no surprises. Kate York's going to kick. Tresway will punt and they signed Tyler Ott, their long snapper, the former Harvard star, who's got experience with their special teams coach and coordinator, Larry Izzo, so that there was no competition for him. You knew he would be the long snapper, but we'll get to the secondary next because there are still major questions at corner. And there's clearly a ton of talent at safety. Remember, a lot of people were upset that they didn't resign cam curl. And yet maybe the deepest terms of quantity roster on the entire team. I was wrong about that already is safety, even with him playing with the Rams in LA under Sean McVay. We'll get to the secondary next the 53 man roster has been formed. You'll hear from Dan Quinn on this show coming up early in the five o'clock hour. This is the fan. Dan Quinn is addressing the commanders first 53 man roster. We'll have some of that for you coming up early in the five o'clock hour. I say their first roster because that's what this is. A lot of times we make so much out of who made it and who didn't. And in 24 hours, it could look different, let alone in a week when they get ready to take on the Tampa Bay Bucks. But there's a full list of players released. You're going to check it out on my Twitter account at Grand H. Paulson. We just went through almost every position group as to who made the roster. But we saved the defensive backs for last Danny because that was where there was great consternation and debate as to who was going to be in, who was going to be out. They ultimately kept 11 players. And one of the things that you and I kept saying was is Derek forced really going to get cut. It's got to be him or Jeremy Reeves, probably. Well, what if you just say, yeah, maybe it's a lot at one position, but let's keep our best football players. We'll figure the rest out later. That's what they did. So at corner, Mike San restello, they just drafted in the second round. Emmanuel Forbes last year's first round pick was probably going to start. Noah Igg, but Nagani, who's going to back up Sandra still in the nickel at a great camp. Michael Davis, who they brought in the former L.A. Charger as a veteran who plays outside on the boundary was great. It is one of the most physical corners in the league last year, along with Benjamin St. Juice, who was also clearly kept in on the roster. Those are the five traditional corners that were retained. Then you've got what is basically six safeties. And there's some guys who were versatile and multiple could do a couple things. But Jeremy Chin, who's going to start at safety, you've got Quan Martin, who was drafted in the second round at a Illinois last year by the Rivera group. Derek Forrest, out of Cincinnati now in year four, made the roster. The former all pro special team Jeremy Chin at a South Alabama still on the team. Percy Butler, who was a mid round pick at a Louisiana. I thought early in camp, maybe he'd be in a little trouble, but they clearly liked what they saw with his speed and physicality. Yep. And then the last guy in the 11th DB, undrafted free agent out of Texas Tech, Tyler Rowan's. If you can feel it, chase it. That dude flies around the football field and he's fun. So the minimum special team is probably a rookie six, two, two, ten, and some of the best athletic scores and just crazy combine metrics you're ever going to find at the position. He was like an inch away from a world record in the long jump or something crazy like that. Yeah, I would take my chances there, right? To see if I could develop somebody like that. But so just I was talking to someone just moments ago about this very thing here, GP. And this is kind of when you just mentioned it, we're going to keep our best football players, quote unquote, right? And that's the idea. So if you hire Dan Quinn to be your head coach and you give a lot of power to Joe Witt, you're going to see an elevated emphasis on what they've done best over the years. What's Dan Quinn known for? What's Joe Witt known for? Guys in the secondary making place, intercepting balls, legion of boom, that sort of Dan Quinn's calling card. So that stands to reason why I'm just going to make it up some numbers. If you've got a safety that's a five out of 10 and a lineman that's a five out of 10 or receiver that's a five out of 10, there's a there's an affinity extra that maybe puts the safety over the top. It's insane to keep six safety is really seven. If you count down many captain, which I do, that's a lot of safeties. Two, maybe three on the field at once. Maybe you get crazy and go four. I mean, who knows? But you see where the affinity lies. And again, it's not a criticism. Just sort of the reality. If you hire a former wide receiver to be your head coach like Kyle Shanahan, you might see an extra receiver to when it's a tie break time or something of that effect. When you give a huge seat at the table to somebody that's made their bones doing it a certain way, we shouldn't be surprised by these kinds of results where there are more defensive backs than any other position on the roster. How about two thirds of the roster being new? You do the quick math. It's about 63 percent. I came up with 33 out of 53. The number would have been higher if Jordan McGhee wasn't on IR to start the season. And we haven't even started, Danny, the season after this staff left. Yeah. I mean, there's times where a staff could leave and you could still have, you know, 50 to 60 percent of that roster a couple years later. We are down to barely 30 percent of the roster being retained, maybe 20 players before the season even begins. That number could be 15 by midway through the year, which is just so staggering. I don't know that we need to spend any more time beating up on the old regime today. We've done a lot of that, deservedly so. I'm not suggesting they don't deserve it. But with the roster formed, I suppose we can look ahead. I'm noticing something and I want to know if Daris is catching this and Ryan is catching this if you guys don't mind. Now, you guys went and saw Twisters with me and we ate some popcorn and had some tendies. My kid calls candy and we just had a good old time. We had a lot of fun. We were all sitting there just high-fiving. I think we took our shirts off at one point. It was really, really good, right? Danny didn't come. Unfortunately, which means Danny hasn't seen Twisters yet. I think every time I say if you feel it, chase it, he hates it a little. I'm waiting for it to be over. I mean, you despise it because I could see it in your face. People on the 106/7, the fan YouTube stream can see the Tyler Owens bit does not play with you and you just can't stand it. I can't stand it. It's strong. You hate it. No. No, I don't care for it. It bothers you for some reason. Not bothered. No. Actually, I'm a little bothered. Yeah, you know what it is? I would say bothered. I have no interest in it, no affinity for it. And it's just sort of like, I can't wait for it to be over so we can go ahead. Would you still hate it? Yeah. Okay. I have no interest in that. Glen Powell's character. I'm sure it is. In the movie, it's kind of a funny, sticky thing where they're all like scientists chasing storms. He's just a guy on YouTube. It was like a storm wrangling. It just like a pointed himself as a good looking badass. And his catchphrase that dummies like love, you know, they put on a t-shirt, you know, how dumb everyone is. Sure, of course. People are so stupid. Yeah. You know, everyone's so dumb. So they just see this catchphrase. And it's like, if you feel it, chase it. And he's like got all these YouTube followers and subscribers. Yeah, I believe you. And so it's Tyler Owens. Sure. And now I just show up at training camp. And one of the big stories is this guy named Tyler Owens, like three nights after I saw the movie. If you feel it, chase it. If you feel it, chase it. What do you think out? But I think, yeah, I wish you would go away. And I wish you I wish like Tyler Owens, the football player wasn't conflated with a character in a movie. Dearest, as the season goes on, if Tyler Owens gets to play a little bit, maybe makes a play, I think we got to do if you feel it, chase it. I think so too. And plus by then, I would imagine in the next week or so, the movie's going to be out on DVD. It won't be long. Yeah. DVD. Listen to this. Yeah, on digital and streaming. There we go. I don't know if I have DVD still at home, because it's hard for me to get rid of them. Of course you do. I don't know if I could play them on anything. Oh, no chance. I know. Maybe my PS five would do it. But I had the digital one. Sorry. Have you ever owned a DVD? Oh, of course. Yeah. I used to have a DVD player back in the day. Did you ever burn a DVD? Never burn a DVD. Could you watch a DVD tonight if you needed? Like, if I gave you a movie and someone wanted to watch a movie with you and they said, let's watch what GP gave you. Could you even find a way to do that? No, because I don't have like a PS4 or PS5, but our PS is out there. I have no DVD player at the Clary household. If you feel it, chase it. If you feel it, I don't think Danny feels it, by the way. I don't at all. You know what? That's a great point. I don't think he feels it, and that's why you can't chase it. 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