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Beltway Blitz, Which Commanders Free Agent Has Impressed Us?
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normally would on the blitz the capitals have a big event tonight caps 50 a lot of people are coming out for all the activations 70 former players all of the current players on the roster the night culminates with a concert of third eye blind behind us in the arena this evening gonna be a pretty raucous environment i'm excited to see all the caps fans back for the first time since last year and on top of all of that danny they opened the season on saturday night they will be right here at the arena to take on the new jersey yeah the josh aris poll there on on uh on saturday uh we we obviously have spent a ton of time talking about the football team rightfully so with with what's happened but uh to me there's a lot of questions with the caps and they're different than the previous years questions in other words when you go yeah where are they gonna get an equals backstrum or katija oh she'd be healthy enough or you know some of these things we're talking about huge salary players that may not be able to live up to the billing anymore and and those guys are heroes i'm not saying that criticizing but you're simply saying it's hard when a quarter of your salary cap is thought up in guys that can't produce at that same level anymore so now in addition to ovey's goal chase you're folding in a bunch of new pieces and how the new pieces fit in and and what they're sealing is to me is the question with the capados right now i don't have a you i mean you're you're closer to what i am i don't have a great feel for quote-unquote how good they're going to be in a crowded eastern conference yeah i don't think anybody does because it's a brand new roster with a lot of players and lines that haven't played together before so it's pretty impossible to know what they're going to be how quickly do they come together how quickly can carbs get them all to play as one unit i mean those are gonna be the answers to that question but you mentioned in passing their ovey's goal chase that is still the number one story as the story man for a lot of people in this town he has 41 goals away from tying Wayne Gretzky he needs 42 to break the record we had john carlson on a few days ago and he joked he's picking 43 goals for ovey so not only the record but one bonus goal for him this year but yeah i'm just fired up for the new roster they had a lot of money to spend sadly without backstrum and without oishi two guys that are essentially now going into retirement still on the roster but on long-term injured reserve andrew manji apani is on the top line with dillon strom and alex ovechkin wearing number 88 on the second line it'll be centered by p_r luke doubla with connor mick michael and tom wilson the third line is mostly guys that you're familiar with but maybe the best story on the team right now jake verana's back crazy and v who left and had all kinds of personal trouble and was in and out of you know different programs with the league to try to get him back on his feet is now live in a good life and plan for the washing capitals again which is pretty amazing the fourth line is two-thirds new with brandon dohame and taylor radish uh... around nicked out who's still centering that group in his mid-thirties one of our favorites defensively carlson's gonna skate on the top defensive pair with jake up chikron matt roy's gonna be with marty farivari on the second defensive pairing and in the net while charlie lindgren's still gonna play a huge role for them they brought in former vegas goldenite logan tomsen who could end up being their goalie won this year so it's a very very new roster they've got a lot more veteran talent and a lot more veterans period and i think that should help them to be a playoff caliber team this year the the excitement is over you know folding in some of these new pieces and and guys that you know come in with there's a reason you can get a peer luke to boa right at his age with his talent level it's because quite frankly there's their baggage on all this the right word that's that's probably too harsh of word you think of that with like a diva wide receiver that's quick on people it's not quite there but you're going god you're so talented where's my huge production and match it and the capitals this is something that you could say it's a really big complement to the organization have been incredible incredible at taking the oh you don't want him watch what we do i call it the brett connelly corollary right where you get folded in and your best self comes through they figure out what you do well and and you get maximized here i'm hoping that's another example here to the wizards who played in the preseason last night i thought kashan george looked very good he got rave reviews you heard tobi in the updates and 14 points five of six shooting he was kind of the star of their preseason game uh he is six foot eight uh he's got a big time wingspan he's only 20 years old he showed well defensively and then they also when they played their first preseason game got a really strong effort from alexa they're top rookie draft picks so there's a lot of problems they're gonna have to iron out they turn the ball over i think 30 times last night just to the first quarter to be clear they're going to be really really bad i'm not suggesting otherwise but what i care about is what does bob carrington look like this kashan george proved to be a player who i think they took 24th overall is alex sarr going to be better offensively than it looked like he was going to be when he was kind of a disaster in the the summer league those are the priorities and so far through a couple preseason games there's been some good signs sara by the way 12 points and nine boards with three blocks last night against the next you didn't shoot it great but you can't take your eyes off him i'm telling you like i i will take my chance on that guy a lot of people are rolling their eyes and whatever but someone that's that big that physical that athletic who moves around the way that he does it can be harnessed right he's still just a kid at this point but the the guy wanted to call it you said it kashan george it is a beautiful shooting stroke how you know how developed he gets physically how quick he can be is there more explosion in the tank he grew up as a ball handler so he knows how to play the game a little bit but i think he's maybe a little bit away from being able to really contribute i think that's what this year is going to be about but it's your point it's this is the sar kulabali uh george karrington and maybe name another guy or two that might be here for a while show and i'm here for it and on the nationals front nothing doing it is all quiet off seasons underway playoff baseball has been excellent so far i will say as far as the nationals go until we all ties her and i on a new episode of bust and lose baseball documented this in detail if you listen to it tonight when we're done but it is time to spend money this off season i will be mad if they don't spend money they have been given time people have been patient i think we all bought in on and understand it there's a rebuild happening and it's going to take a few seasons but they've got enough young talent now with cj abrams dylan cruz james wood both haven't graduated this year mckenzie gore jay carvin in the rotation some of the other young players like michael parker and d_j_ hers who have come on there's no reason they don't supplement that young talent with actual veteran free agent additions that come with money i hope mike rizzo doesn't have to trade pieces of the system away to get better because ownership isn't willing to spend the time is now and they need open up their checkbooks this winter what is your gut tell you will they i think it's going to be less than i want in more than zero like they're obviously not going to do what they did the last few years because they have no payroll i mean it would be utterly embarrassing for them maybe the marlin's that they they literally would have like straw spurt and nothing else on the payroll so my gut is that they're going to sign like nick pavetta and that they're going to like bring back trevor williams and bring it you know maybe trade for like jake burger from the marlin's or something and they're going to be like see we added some talent look at all the spending we've done saying what they should do is sign christian walker at first base i probably wouldn't sign anthony sonton dara 40 home or baton right field because i think eventually that's a bad contract but it's like a four-year 80 million type deal for him maybe i would sign a bat or two and i would sign a veteran starting pitcher could be like a number two type starter for them that would be my hope i think it's less than that and more than zero is where they ultimately settle yeah i think it's going to be barely above zero i don't have i'm not sourcing anything it's not like i'm talking anybody behind the scenes just just my gut just in here in what i hear yeah uh like all my source reports indicated i'm not doing that i'm just just the vibe i get the feeling i get you just don't trust them yeah at this stage i think just i don't know i don't have a better way to put it than that the hope is it's because it's obvious this is your 2011 team right that okay now you've got some young pieces on the way that's when you go get your jason worth not because that you're you're going to be great but because it's time to start saying that you're serious again and then that's the year before the year where you end up winning 98 games they're in that same spot now history is repeating itself the baseball playoffs continuing today with two american league games where teams are facing elimination who you're rooting for here the guardians are taken on the upstart Detroit tigers who aren't very good but are red hot i mean it's amazing what Detroit's doing they're now up two games to one in that division series a game away from an alcs berth and the Yankees have a chance to finish off the royals tonight as well new york took a two to one lead on kansas city on shan carlo stanton solo home run late last evening i'll be pulling for cleveland to come back and for say game five and oddly i want the Yankees to win and get to the alcs the strangest that sounds i'm rooting for one so do because i love them so much i will never root for the Yankees that is a no from me they are the worst and i can't stand them so every time they lose it is good so i don't care a place for them so that is my first thing so go royals which means congrats to the Yankees uh for the other series i i'll go back and forth on this like detroitis that's fun how cool is that right this team that has has been as bad as anybody they have zero success to show for the last you know several decades we really need if they were able to do something but again it kind of goes to my one of the principles you and i've been talking offline a little bit about this i even tweeted about this last line at funny danny like it's neat when an upset happens but when it's no longer an upset when it's now once again a five seed and a six seed are going to be the in the alcs in the nlcs it now becomes more normal the wild card team that hasn't been as good that's 20 games worse than what some of these division winners sometimes more is you know red hot and boiling through the playoffs is everybody else that's been great for seven months has to just sort of sit around and wait for them to figure it out there's not enough advantage for the good teams not enough disadvantage for the bad teams so i want to encourage teams that have been good for a year basically to get more out of it and that doesn't seem to be happening yeah i tend to agree with that i think it's better for the playoffs if the good teams play for world series titles the occasional upset is cool it's a great story you need to have the possibility of an upset yeah but it should not be the norm right we need to minor in those and major in the best teams making deep runs routinely and consistently and that's not what's happening right now last year the rangers were not that good all season they ended up getting hot and winning the world series now you could say the same thing about the 2019 match what it did for this city in that fan base i understand that but that every 10 years is special and fun but when the diamondbacks just get on a roll and go to the world series okay i guess yeah i happened last year i wanted to stand out when the 83 win team gets red hot and and you know the cardiac kids or they never said i died this or that when it's nothing but five and six seeds all the time tells you something's wrong with your structure i do not have a good system to replace this one with for baseball and that's why i haven't been all that adam and about yelling about this one but this one does not work that well because the layoff for the division series team that that's the favorite doesn't have to play in the wild card is hurtful and makes it hard to win i think now that the national league favorite has never won that division series over the team that uh you know got through the wild card play them believe we've got some breaking news coming in right now we've been going round the horn to all the teams in dc sports as we get to the commanders we've got some breaking news breaking news on the fan is brought to you by bet ql smarter bet start with bet ql get three free days of bet ql access by downloading the bet ql app or visiting bet ql dot com the commanders have waved quarterback sam heart men there's a an open spot on the practice squad he could potentially return then with quarterback marcus mariota returning last week to his normal backup role the commanders have waved quarterback sam heart man i'm toby altizer with breaking news on the fan if you listen closely that sound is women all over washington dc sine as sam heart men the most handsome washington commander and one of the best looking players in dc sports has been released let me just real quick text my wife i was gonna say does she know make sure she's okay i have bad news uh go ahead danny i'm gonna text her that's fine uh he's less than half of uh our age and uh my wife knows who he is you know what i mean like this isn't a guy that's playing every day this isn't a dude that's starting she wasn't familiar with what was going on at wake forest in their program or when he transferred her Notre Dame but she found out about sam heart man and had questions for me about sam heart you know what i'm saying that wasn't like hey jaden dandell's husband trophy winner the guy that's going to change the entire fortunes of this more about franchise they've been bad for so long he might make you great no no the questions are about sam heart man how much is he going to play is he going to be a public relations guy is he going to to be there at games uh will he have his helmet up so i can see him these are the kind of questions i was asked that main that he's got those long flowing locks it's tough it's a tough loss words come to mind not like arm strength or accuracy or you know pocket presence words like dream boat yes like fox right like hunk those are the words that comes to mind with sam heart man i believe there is a chance that they will stash him on the practice squad that he'll be added to the p squad is like the organizational project you know long-term backup type guy because you know a dress school or a mario those guys are here or not year to year also by all accounts heart man and daniels are very close they have a really good relationship uh they study together do a lot of work together so it would not surprise me at all if heart man was added to the p squad it's possible i guess if another team only has two quarterbacks that they might see him cut by the number one offense with all the points and bring him in and pick his brain a little bit and want him as their third quarterback in another building or pay him a little more to be on their practice squad but sam heart man released by the commanders just a few minutes ago last week for the first time in my life that i can remember covering a game washington at four quarterbacks on their 53 man roster on game day wow they had heart man deactivated they had Driscoll as the emergency third and then mario to backing up daniels so you knew something would have to give and today was the day that it did which free agent additions for the commanders have impressed the most has anybody so far that adam peters brought in you know been a disappointment that's a very very small list if we can even make one let's get into that next right here on the fan 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 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about their free agent class in just a bit as a reminder though we've got cap tickets we're giving away before the end of the show we'll do that at six o'clock right here on the fan we're taking you up to six 30 tonight we are at capital on arena head of the caps 50 event they got the whole team coming out to celebrate with fans 50 years of caps hockey a third eye blind concert tonight among the cool activations that they've got out here real quick i thought we could just go through the free agent signings this offseason letter grades a to f based on the first quarter here at the quarter pole and how we feel then i want to go back and have larger conversations let's just run through this nick allegretti has been starting at left guard a i mean for what they paid my god i would say a plus if we're accounting for what they've paid but yeah we'll go with an a dorance armstrong at defensive end b i'll say b plus the last two games have been tremendous dorance armstrong first couple of weeks was not overly noticeable but right now he's right there top the bleeder board with frankie lubo and sachs for the team tylor be out of shit center a plus plus extra credit he's make he's like ruining the curve for everybody else yeah i will say a plus jeremy chin it's safety that's tough one um b for me i'll say b minus again first couple of weeks i probably would have had a c or lower but i think he's actually been pretty good the last couple weeks michael davis they missed on michael davis yeah and that is a d he's played special teams he played a little bit on the defensive side at corner and it didn't go well and they benched him so it didn't work but they didn't but it caused so little like the value of it to me so it's like one of those this is a pop quiz when you didn't do the reading and it really isn't going to affect your grade one way or the other so you have to have your parents sign it right i go to demonus but it doesn't matter we are we have a final we have like 17 projects that matter so yeah that's a d but they evaluated michael davis is a guy they wanted on their team because they thought he'd be good and i think they evaluated him wrong they paid him what they're playing cleal and feral right so it's a better way to do it where they right or wrong right then then let her agree so yes i'll say wrong there pass fail michael deter who they brought in to be an interior back up basically he's played a little bit when hallowed ready he's got banged up so far that's a win for that that's it's a win jeff driscoll that's a win for them yep austin echler a a plus plus all the numbers every positive thing you could say a plus as well now here's a guy that you beat up i think unfairly but that's your own thing zach irks i'm going to say he's been in a so far he's been a great blocker he's been heavily involved in the passing game and most importantly and i didn't think he would he has stayed healthy so far he has yeah no that's a win because again they paid nothing it's you know he's uh i think he's got a two million dollar cap hit i would absolutely take that and in terms of leading that position group uh being a valuable resource now he had i don't look he's done everything that i would have loved in terms of just holding on to the damn football uh you know he should have caught a pass right before down the ground caught a touchdown pass down around shouldn't have been able to catch it because they should have been first in the goal in the red zone on a crossing route that urch just didn't catch but yeah overall he's been incredibly positive so yes and that's not even the drop where they needed replay assistance right to make sure that it wasn't a fumble uh which by the way he did fumble against the bangles could have cost him the game but i'll agree he saved his bacon kleland ferrell first two weeks had a sack in each game more cleanup sacks for doron pain plays he's been hurt mostly since but i'd say so far that has worked out yeah that is that is a win that's not one of those slam dunk you know hundred out of hundreds it's probably a a b minus type thing but it's a win don't they foul or i'd say so far they were right about he's helped them although not a big win like they don't get enough pass rush from their defensive ends and he has mostly been quiet he's had a couple of sacks now uh one in a game where they had seven against a completely broken to sean watson and another another sack that was kind of a covered sack memory serves a couple of weeks before that but i would say foul has been like a c minus i mean it's a situational pass rush yeah that you don't pay a lot of money to but if the idea was we're bringing him in because we think on passing downs he's gonna be a demon that is not happen right i mean he makes the you know cap it's the same as john baits or or tresway so to me that's a win no egg benogany's been awesome i think that's a win huge time victory yep frankie lubu goes in the a plus plus plus plus frankie lubu has been a game changer for them in terms of their culture he's been awesome for the defensive mindset i think and getting buys uh getting guys prepared also you know having guys in game play with energy and then on top of all of those intangible things that people might not care as much about i think frankie lubu's also been just a really good player like you've done some really good thing hyper-productive you know uh brian balder we had on earlier on the show had a really good breakdown about how washington's linebackers are starting to play really well together and it's saying can kind of feed off each other and he showed four or five different clips lubu was lined up in a different spot on each one of the highlights one on the fourth down where he knifes in there and and and uh and it taps the ball carrier that's going to end up falling short on that in a huge fourth down play one where he's you know blitzing up in the a gap mugging up a billion different things that guy is a factor each week uh marcus mariota this to me is it's worked you probably could have had a lot of guys do what he's done because he has been deactivated for several weeks and then he came in and did live very little and the one game he's been active for when you didn't play your starters in the fourth quarter i don't hold their lack of moving the football against him at all they kind of checked out and put some backups out there with him but i'd say it was a victory in that it seems like he has helped jaden daniels yes just the whole point you wanted a veteran who does some things style of play wise mindset wise like daniels did when he came out and it seems like he's been a good resource for jaden so i'll say that's a win it's a win for me too and as you said i i don't know if you if you subbed him out for any other backup ili right if you if you swapped him with a with you know someone from the case kingdom tier could then i'd done the same thing i know this this one's worked so i call it a win i'm just going in alphabetical order the next one i see is brian and mcmanis now mcmanis they sign thinking they'd solve their kicking problem they obviously released him after allegations had come out against him that have since i believe been dropped at least legally i don't know what's going on civilly with that situation he's eligible last i saw to to rejoin a team uh they feel like they've got their kicker and austin siberto hasn't missed yet german mc nickels when they signed him i thought nothing of it i thought maybe that guy'll make the roster or he'll be a good campbody i did not have three touchdowns in the last two weeks and a pretty banner performance in arizona in a win last week in the office pool yeah what a win what a win i mean nine teams in the last couple of seasons alone just getting released and picked up and dropped and picked up 12th club that he's signed with at a different point what what a win uh tyler octa long snapper i have not heard that guy's name once the perfect seriously yep in fact i'll go one step further i've been in and out of the locker room a bunch both in camp and now in the regular season i wouldn't recognize tylorot if he was sitting on my lap nobody out there googling okay especially if you're driving be safe what does tylorot look like describe him right now to yourself does anyone have any idea that's how i like it i like that dude nameless just faceless maybe maybe tylorot has no face maybe he's like a smart like a like a blurred out witness protection face maybe i'll keep it that way in my mind when it just snaps it perfectly to tressway once a game and snaps it to the uh to to tressway for holding field goals or or extra points seven times a game everyone knew what Cameron chiesman looked like last year after the chiesman's the fifth time fox zoomed in on him on the sideline trying to get you know together with tressway to talk about the snap and the hold you saw him every week this is the holder he's cam chies when he played at michigan did you know by the way they traded up for him i don't think they said that but they should have but you knew what he looked like well i don't i don't know what tylorot looks like james pier did not make the team i mean that was a nothing burger whatever uh antony pitman got hurt would have been a really good player on special teams has helped when he's been on the field a bobby wagner hey it may be even a plus i'm gonna put a for bobby wagner to just just a tier below narrowly but a little bit below the ones like echlear bia dish luva even allegretti who have been fantastic but you're right wagner might deserve to be in that group because i think for the most part week one notwithstanding when i thought he didn't quite look comfortable or up to speed or whatever i think the last few weeks he has been all over the place there's a complete wrecking ball the reason i could go up to an a plus is those six tfl's it's not just tackling because he's in the middle of the field you know washing it's had you know nubby linebackers that they've paid no money to that have led the team in tackles it's not just that it's the six tackles for loss three quarterback hits bloods a little bit meet you the quarterback frankie luva michael walker has played special teams they've been great on special teams so that's a win man it's a pretty bad analysis to say he's the reason why but i mean he signed him for nothing he brought him in to play teams he's played teams and they've been good so we'll give it a victory and then how about a lamadeza kias who caught ten balls last year he had a six catch game last week just by itself in washington had a huge catch this but past week is only grabbed set up a fourth in a couple on a really nice move that he made but he's already surpassed his production from filia a year ago yep that's a win another one uh a guy that they thought would be able to have a larger role for them return at ponce at times two it's not as if he's been unbelievable in that regard but still a steady force back there the reason i wanted to do the exercise that way is you kind of get the picture don't you yep adam peters has been incredible in this year one off season now becoming a regular season with the production that they're getting out of the players he brought in but that sets up this conversation i want to have on the mgm national harbor listener line eight hundred six three six one zero six seven eight hundred six three six one zero six seven who has been their best free agent addition so far this season who do you think has made the biggest impact had the most important role maybe is most influential in their four-in-one record right now because i think there's options their offense is the reason they keep winning and ekler has been one of the best players on their offense but he didn't miss a game and they didn't miss him in the game that he missed you could say luvus one of the first guys that comes to mind for me but i thought the first couple of weeks when they were bad defensively well he had some plays it wasn't like he was great you could say wagner from a cultural standpoint i think that would make a little bit of sense too bia dish is in the discussion may be allegretti it's been on and off the field with injuries more so than bia dish who has more responsibility up front anyway that's the short list is anyone else that should be thrown into the finalist category yeah i mean you you mentioned the heavy hitters right the two line backers wagner and luvus uh backler certainly on offense even though you mentioned it the game i thought they would struggle to score i said let's struggle to score without him this court 42 so yeah i i think those are are the main guys i mean you can add in igniting just because of how weak that position is um you know maybe another name or two but i think those are kind of your heavy hitters all right so that's the question we'll hit the calls on this next and we'll both give you our answer at 800-6-36-1067 in what seems like it was a pretty masterful free agent class by peters and company smart as we thought at the time veterans short contracts setting yourself up to spend big on long-term answers next year bringing some guys in to help change the culture now that you've seen five games and we're about a third of the way through this season which free agent has made the most positive biggest impact that's next on grant and any time we're at capital one arena head of the caps 50 event on grant and danny on the fan the question we're asking you we just went player by player through adam peters first pre-agent a free agent class coming to washington who has been the most helpful impactful free agent that they have signed through five games austin eckler's my favorite i love that signing i was so excited about it so bullish on it he's outstanding he is so good with the ball in his hands but it's taylor bjarish this offensive line was a question mark it is not now and i think he is at the absolute center of it that's a terrible pun and i apologize because he's the center but that's the deal he has solidified that group with a rookie quarterback to stabilize uh you know and deal with all the different things you know they're going to throw at you they're going to try to complicate do all the different sort of zone blitzes and confusing things and and all the different stunts and games he is not only held fast in terms of communication get everybody on the same page they've blocked really well but he's also been mauling people i feel like that guy is a huge unheralded reason as to why this offense is kicking all sorts of ass and keeping a list of names yeah it's really impressive when you look at biadish 185 snaps as a pass blocker on dropbacks and just one pressure on a hurry so far this year amazing i was going to say biadish you did so i'm not going to double up i will go a different direction i'll tell you who in a second but before we leave the offensive line we should also point this out about adam peters yes they signed players from outside the building that have been a helpful they also made some really important other decisions on the offensive line in another position 100 man and i'm not talking about the draft and Brandon Coleman i'm talking about Cornelius Lucas yeah we should theoretically count because they decided to bring him back they watched the film and said we'll start this guy we won't sign someone else we'll find our guy in the draft we won't take one in the first round we can get one in the second round we won't take one in the second round we can get one in the third round but you know you still have Cornelius Lucas as your starter right they were right about that too yep Cornelius Lucas on 111 drop backs as a pass blocker has allowed four pressures all on hurries no hits of the quarterback so far this season so i just want to point that out as well i will go with frankie louvoo because i think there is some non-analytic stuff on louvoo that's huge you see him breaking the team down in the huddle kind of replacing john allen almost in that way where he is the guy that is like most responsible for getting everyone fired up pre-snap i think that's a big deal yep but also the way he plays he is what they talked about in the joeyt opening presser the arriving violently and all that anybody anytime anywhere shtick that i don't really care about but if you you know put your body in the car crash sixty times and you're in the NFL it means something to you he is that dude man he is an absolute beast i love frankie louvoo he throws his body around with reckless abandon and he's been really since the first week or two i think he's been one of the better players at his position in the league so i'll go frankie louvoo yeah he's been instrumental so to me defense you know at various points it's been different things in the NFL and at one time it was about you know limiting mistakes and playing responsibly and keeping everything in front of you and i guess it's still that right now to a degree it's kind of come back in cycles but to me the most important thing about a defense is the negative play finding something to disrupt sometimes that could just lead to an incompletion sometimes it can be like this you know a holding penalty that never gets that uh you know the plane ever gets off the ground or forcing a false start or you know knife it through for that tackle for loss or batting a pastime that might have gone for something big he is everywhere all the time he is disruptive that disruptive figure is the thing i crave even if it means though you know every once in a while you know he's gonna swing a miss because you over pursued and went too fast and then somebody you know kind of gets him i will take that because of the disruption he provides he's been outstanding let's go to nick who's waiting in richmen he called the mgm national harbor listener lines nick which free agents have helped them the most hello gentlemen thanks for taking my call hey man you got it buddy uh although the offense have been outstanding i'm kind of with you i was leaning more towards lubu or even wagner and i'm leaning more towards wagner i think he is the general he's the presence he's the future nfl hall of famer and uh although lubu's out there running around spearheading guys i think wagner's leading the troops appreciate you and just get them together yeah you know what we can't underscore enough the stuff you don't see on sundays from one to four you know if you're been standing out there on the beat in the locker room that you notice if you're at the practice facility and seeing some of the things he's doing that matter that's bobby wagner's calling card that's kind of why they brought him in here we see the way that he plays yeah he's playing at a high level he mentioned the austin's plural we are sleeping a little bit on cybert because he was signed in season on the waiver wires nothing now i am a little more dismissive of him maybe as i should be i hope i don't get called any names in the chat rooms because i'm saying something about the commanders today that isn't that they're going to the super bowl or everyone's the mvp but while cybert's been good 12 for 12 and 13 for 13 field goals and extra points he has not kicked a field goal longer than 45 at this point he has not been asked to do anything in terms of degree of difficulty that he shouldn't be able to do at a really really high rate as an nfl kicker he's been perfect i give him credit for that he's better than chris bluit and he's better than kat york that doesn't get you very far though so yes he's been awesome but i am just not throwing the party for him yet i'm not writing in sharpie that he will be their kicker in a year or two like i felt about hopkins or gano or these other guys that i pretty quickly said oh they got the leg they got the accuracy that's a franchise kicker i got to see him do something beyond chip shots and the offense has been so good he hasn't had to yet but it will take still some kicks of 50 plus before i break out my pen yeah it's interesting right because for me and i made it up that my update my following this because as i said i saw this past week on a college kicker i can't remember which game i was watching hit a 59 yarder i'm going okay i guess it's it's everywhere now right the kickers are incredible but for me i just want my special teams most specifically the kicking and punny game just don't screw us right just don't ruin everything first just don't give up the back breaking play just don't do anything crazy don't do what seattle did have a kick block that goes for a touchdown and now you lose all i want really are my easily makeable kicks easily made i still treat that that north of 50 yarder is kind of the bonus and i probably shouldn't it should be it's more mainstream now than it's ever been but this is what i'm looking for i will the other stuff like don't kick it out of bounds and give the other team the ball at the 40 make the 45 yarders in in please do that every time you do that you're going to be fine just fine by me but you're right it's it's a five-game sample i have done this five-game sample a million times uh where we've decided that kai four bath is the guy or nick novax the guy or named that guy that wasn't the guy that we thought was the guy oh wait let's squeeze in brian and austin texas is listening on the odyssey uh brian we're up against it so be quick what do you got but hey brian real quick but number one uh austin eczler number two austin cyber cali one of the game but every time we go for a field goal you're not cringing so i'm with it thanks buddy he's all in on the austin's on the free-age in additions austin two 16 or something just a reminder austin 14 for 14 no you go after his next kick just a reminder 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