Best of Commanders on 106.7 The Fan/The Team 980: Welcome to DC, Sonny Styles!

Definitely 106 7 the fam

Beat you remember last week when I said

The Giants trading back to 10 means they get to be aggressive at five and they'll get a tackle at 10

That sure happened

It's it's interesting watching things unfold where you don't know what's gonna happen

But you can kind of like figure out a strategy. I think for Washington the strategy was pretty simple

It's just get the best guy we can and I think they accomplished that now

I know you got to talk to sunny-siles last night, right? What was your right?

I talked to him. I didn't oh he did I thought he'd join you guys on the desk

No, no, no because yeah to come over there to us so Brian was when I got up and walking talk to him

Okay, yeah, yeah, cuz if he had walked all the way to you guys he would have never he'd be right

Would have been a zoo

Um

Well, I got to talk to sunny-siles last night and these are brief conversations

But it is a window into who somebody is and I was

thoroughly impressed

Here's my conversation with sunny-siles from draft night. I want to start by saying congratulations

What's this moment like for you?

I appreciate. I'm just blessed. Superbless to be here. No, thank God. I take my family

You know it takes all everyone and everything to get to this moment. It's not just me a lot of sacrifice to get here

So I'm just super blessed. You said when you woke up you felt like you were gonna be a commander

But why where did that come from?

It's a good feeling. You know, I think it was guy

You know, I think it was the people in the building

It was a great people in the building everyone from head coach GM all the way down to the player of Ellen everyone

It's a bunch of great people and I think I was drawn towards that and just it just felt like it was meant to be

What was your connection like with with Dan Quinn and Adam Peters in some of those meetings?

That was awesome great conversations

I could tell that a lot of belief in me and

You know, I think they felt like I'm still scratching the surface of my game

And I think I'm at a pretty good spot right now, but still a lot of work to be done

So for them to believe in me, you know, and see how high my ceiling can be

You know, I'm super excited. I'm glad they believe in me. How would you describe your game for fans?

I

Was say

first of all

physical and intelligent

And how you said you're scratching the surface. Where can you go with that?

That's a heck of a tool set. I mean, I think I was year in year two of the position

And I think I was the best in college at the position knowing you're two

So I think there's still a lot of work to be done

And obviously I'm stepping in the NFL now, so I got to make a big jump and

Really got to just get a routine get a process and just trust the trusted guy and trust the process

Do you know any of the players on the commentaries? I know I mean Terry's the Ohio State guy

Yeah, I don't know in person obviously Terry. I know a bunch of the guys names. You know person

I know J.J.B. Javon G. Vatties. Oh, that's my guy. Do you ever cross paths with J Niddle?

No, I haven't no, but I'm obviously familiar with this game. Prairie player

What's it like to know you're gonna be a teammate of his now? I'm super excited

It knows a great quarterback, you know, I think when you know organization

You've got your franchise QB, you know, you've got a chance

So I'm super excited to get to work with him. Do you know much at all about the DMV about where you're headed?

I mean, I know about the DMV. I don't know about the area like it's not like I was down there a whole lot

You know, I know it's a nice area, so I'm super excited

What do you think of the fits the burgundy and gold? They just rolled out new uniform

And I think the burgundy and gold is gonna look real nice on me, so I'm super excited

This is far before your time

Washington had a legend a Hall of Famer sonny Jergenson

I don't I doubt you have much file on him

But to be another sonny in that organization is pretty cool. Yeah, I hope I like it stuff in those shoes and fellow

But he was a quarterback so don't worry. Okay

No, obviously still a lot a long way to go to get there

But a school to have another sonny and an organization. Thank you for the time. Congratulations

Sonny, I just I loved

Listen, I

Tried to make it super clear that there's no no expectation for a 21-year-old young man from Ohio to know much if anything about sonny Jergenson

Mm-hmm, but but there is something kind of cool about sonny passing

Obviously Jergenson passing and then them drafting a guy with what is a pretty remarkable

Name and there's no parallel there. There's there's no tie-in, but I just

his demeanor

was

So confident yet so void of arrogance or or or or like bravado it was

Draft night is a night for bravado and swag and neon green suits and you know

Like you could do what you want on draft night. You've earned it. You're about to be a top 20 pick in in the NFL draft

You're gonna accomplish something that

0.00001 percent of the human population will ever dream of right so that's a night to to to talk your S

That's just not who sonny styles is and I just found that crazy impressive

Jay

A a is in everybody and it comes out in different ways

He may not brag about it, but he knows what he's about

Some guys they they express it by talking to some guys express it by

sub like sub doing it

Athletic arrogance is in every athlete that you see get drafted

Air athlete they get to this level any pro level they got some athletic arrogance in them and I think the whole thing about is

Everyone doesn't like you see Fred smooth

Fred is gonna always say something no matter what it is

Other guys won't until you push him

Other guys you make it you probably can't push him, but they internalize it and it comes out

So even two dudes that are good friends and accomplished a lot on the football field think about Fred and Tana

Yeah, what wildly different they are

And that's what I'm saying like like Tana don't say anything

But if you're knowing just look at it. Oh, you got to look at his face. You know when he ready to go

Sure, you know, I'm saying it's a I just think like that little that part there

Yeah, I think people think every guy is gonna like I got watched the guys last night and

Jordan Tyson was like he was kind of pissed. I think they ain't got dropped. He slipped in the draft

I mean I was that's what I thought he was

But then Rubin Bain when he was asking him questions. He said I'm going to show these people what I'm about and

I don't see anything wrong with that me either. Yeah

Me either I just I thought the window into sunny styles the person was pretty impressive because he could have played the

I'm pissed. I went seventh if he wanted to you know what I mean like there were conversations about wherever he could have gone and I think

That's a dude is just super comfortable in what he can do and who he is and I think with that comes a

level of comfort is

That he's going to walk into this situation and ball out. Yeah, it's what he's done his whole career

You know and I expect that and but I'll tell you this there are expectations. Oh, yeah

I mean we can sit up here and seventh over I want to put it on him

But there are expectations and I think he for sure knows that because like you don't get drafted

I'm a seven overall we don't we're going to let you just come ahead and just go to the motion. No, no, no

We expect to you to hit the ground running

Pressure is a privilege. Yeah, you and I committed travel

Or to make things work so we can do our program today

We we busted our ass because it's today. Yes, right pressure is a privilege man

Sunny styles knows that better than most folks in the country now nobody go anywhere

We're gonna keep the phone lines open also. I want to touch on some other dress stuff

I want to talk to Simpson. I want to talk NFC East and

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It's your reaction to the selection of sunny styles at number seven the linebacker from Ohio State

The commanders get Dan Quinn's guy and this is guy apparently sunny styles. Yeah, Peter's guy. That's I mean

He has a type you have like four options

Do you love it? Do you like it me or do you hate it? You can vote at junks radio. I can't imagine too many sides Eric Bickle hates it

But but it came down to styles Jordan Tyson and Caleb Downs

Those are the three guys that we kind of talked about at seven

You know, I'm not a commander fan, but I would have thought that Caleb Downs there at seven would be a great pick as well

We thought Tate might have been available, but he wasn't he wasn't correct

Another little bit of a surprise him going that early to the Titans and

Delane getting picked one pick before styles with the chiefs moving up. Yep enabled styles to fall into the

Commanders lap right because if those two things don't happen

He might have made it down to seven. He's probably gone. So those two things really enabled the commanders to land

The guy that I'm I wish I saw what the top of their draft board look like, but I'm sure sunny sunny styles

If he wasn't a top it he was two or three on their draft board

Yeah, like he was super high on their board and they seemed

Thrilled to be able to get him with the seventh pick me. We'll never know, but do you think it was

Bailey Reese styles

I don't think you think love was ahead of I think I think styles could have been a top their draft board

You could have been there number one overall player because we know how Peter's really favors these guys who are

Freak athletes. I mean you're gonna have a pairing now of Chanel and sunny styles

It's the most most freakish linebacker tandem in NFL history if you go

Statistically on the

Yeah, because sunny style scored a perfect 10 highest ever for a linebacker and Leo Chanel scored a 9.9 right so

They

Freakly revamped this linebacker room in one-off season. Yeah, I mean just on paper

Just think about how much better this defense is right on paper seems markedly better

You got to go out and play and stop teams and and win but on paper just on who they signed and drafting styles

They are just so much better on the defensive side of the ball

And I think this goes without saying this signals the end of the Bobby Wagner area. Yeah in DC

Which is why he kind of reminded me styles kind of reminds me of Wagner, right kind of looks like a younger version of them very well

Spoken seems like a good dude. Oh see

Praise is a great leader. Oh, yeah, you're a good communicator. No, he's he's gonna be really good in the locker room on the field

It's gonna be their leader if he stays healthy, but I can't imagine a lot of JP. I just in terms of your poll

I can't imagine a lot are gonna hate the pick

Well, let's see to hate it unless they were all in on Caleb Downs

I didn't want to touch styles right. I got to think that most fans love it. This is where you entrust Peter's and his staff

Yeah, took to go by their board and their board clearly had sunny styles ranked above Caleb Downs look everything you say is is

Accurate about his athletic score and clearly if you look at

where they were in terms of speed at the linebacker position bringing in Chanel and then

Drafting sunny styles. It's gonna be a fast linebacking core now. He's gonna be the Mike linebacker. He's gonna call the plays

He's gonna wear the green dot

He's gonna that's what sunny styles would be

The questions that I had along with the B is why not more production this past season on the field

Why only one sack? Why didn't he have more tackles? Why didn't he have more game-changing plays?

I might have an answer. This is from ESPN

One of the questions to his linebacker's coach at Ohio State James Laura Knight has said

Basically, they would have used styles similarly to R. Vell Reese this year if they didn't have Reese

So Reese's skill set was more get after the quarterback sacks pressure and

You know Patricia had him just doing different things. Yeah, so it sounds like styles can do all those things

But they had a guy who was better at some of that other skill set than he was

Let's hear from Adam Peters the general manager of the washing commanders

Let's hear what he said about sunny styles even being available at number seven. I

Good evening everybody

It's

It's it's been smiling here to year for a while now, you know after all the

All the high fives and and everything and kind of settled in but

Yeah, we got sunny styles and

And for I can't tell you how many reasons why we liked them, but but it's

you can go on and on about him and

And we're thrilled to have him and so to pick sunny styles with the seventh pick

Yeah, didn't think he was gonna be there

Thought there was a low chance. There was a chance, but

It was an easy pick when when he when he was there and we were on on the clock, so

That's pretty telling where he says it was an easy pick. Yeah, they're like we can't believe he's here

Like let's just get the pick in well, and it came in pretty quick. Yeah, it was they couldn't believe

That Tate was drafted fourth by the Titans because a lot of mox had styles going in the top five

Yeah, and then the chiefs bypassed him

Yeah, they wanted the corner in

Sort of lane did the chiefs believe the commanders were gonna take man's sore

They they may have yeah, but why else would they move up or maybe they thought the Saints were gonna pick him at eight

There were a few teams in front of them, so good

Glad those things transpired. Do you think if the commanders had

Choose between styles and man's sore. They would have stuck with styles. Yes, you do if I had to guess

I'm guessing styles higher on their board than don't I guess it was styles. Yeah, let's go to cut number two

This is Peter's talking about

Sonny styles and what'll bring to the table a little bit about sunny as a player. I mean

He's huge

He's really like I mean, it's it's just the mate. He's 21 years old. He's a young guy

He's he's just scratching the surface, but he's only elite athlete elite size elite length

And he's just scratching the surface is a linebacker and he's already really good and he's only gonna get better

That's what gave me a lot of confidence too is that he's going to get better and

We have the people in this building with our coaching staff and the support staff to get him there and then himself

He's the type of person who will reach whatever potential. He has he will reach that potential

He's humble. He's driven

he's he's

just kind of

checks every box and so it made it an easy pick. We had a great visit with him on the 30 visit

Super impressive super impressive football intelligence super impressive just presence and

Just everything about him scream commander

Yes, you can tell they were when they had the the phone call with sunny styles before he was selected

Like heaters was gushing Dan Quinn couldn't it couldn't have been happier Josh Harris seemed super pumped

Yeah, about the pick like they they were thrilled that they were able to land him at number seven

And it it just it's scream to you that they did not expect him to be there at seven

Well, let me just counter this by saying a

Besides the Sean McVey presser where people are saying he doesn't look thrilled. Yeah, didn't every war room

Look thrilled

Generally, yes, that seems to be the vibe. Everybody's clasped up and clasped in the high five new hug

Yeah, 25 guys hugging in every war room. Yeah, that's what they do. That's what they do

So I wouldn't read too much into that you better like your pick especially when you're at number seven

So they take sunny styles. He talked about potential

And you know, I think that that that the people it's not that I don't like the pick

um

I just like to see more production

From from guys in college. Yeah, then just great combine stats. I mean the stats are ridiculous

I'm sure we all saw kind of the same tweets that like his size isn't far from Derek Henry

His speed isn't far from like these blazers like athletically as Kate said

He's got this perfect score on on on on the athletic scores. It's just at least this season

It didn't translate as much but I think you're getting caught up in the sacks more than anything like he was you also like

Interceptions, how about here's an important one force fumbles. How many tackles he missed last year? I don't

Miss two tackles and for a team as bad defensively as the commanders were and it burned our retinas to watch them last year

Having a sound tackler in the middle of your defense is a huge upgrade for them

I think people get caught up on that because in two years at oh, it's the last two years that I have to hit 182 tackles

17 for loss yet eight sacks. He had eight past deflections one pick and you caught talk about

Interceptions. I mean, it's not easy to get interceptions. Yeah

Especially a lot of a lot of quarterbacks are gonna throw at you sometimes

Well, especially do middle linebackers usually come down with a ton of picks

And I think and I think a lot of those when you look at the sack numbers interception

He played all kinds of different positions

He played off-ball linebacker. He he played edge. He dropped into coverage

She was covering tight ends and running backs. Sometimes receivers too. He's just a versatile and I'm sure that's what they let a guy about his skill set

Is that he's not just a guy who's gonna be a thumper as far as

Tackling and stopping the run. Yeah, he can do what Bobby Wagner clearly can't cover guys coming out of the backfield cover fast tight ends

It's like a backtruck. Yeah, I mean it's what's not to love about the guy look

I was watching I think he's gonna be really good. I was watching some of the insiders talk about him and

I'm just giving you

part of

The equation that some people have these doubts and I had some of it but watching

And we're gonna play some of this audio later watching some of these insiders talk about what he brings the table

I'm sold

I mean he's gonna have to deliver. I'm sold now. He's somebody who also improved in college. Here's what Adam Peter's talked about it

Because he wasn't playing linebacker at first

When you saw you talked about the improvement ofators a linebacker

Where were there some moments that can that you saw maybe some really big improvements that kind of convinced you like

He's really taken off. This is a guy that can keep doing this nanofl

Yeah, I think it really in every every kind of

portion of the game John. I think

You know you see him playing in the box and using his hands and shedding blocks and and

Reading blocks and then getting to the getting to the ball and in planes like physical like taking on guards

And they got better and better and then as a blitzer you got better

And I think he's just scratching the surface there and he's gonna be a great blitzer and

So all those things that you know come with changing positions

You saw it kind of come to life and he saw it in the playoffs. I mean he played against Indiana his game against Indiana was incredible

And you just made some big time plays in in the Miami game as well. Indiana wasn't playoffs, but

You know you know everything about them. So I mean

Matt Miller who does analysis for ESPN cops in the Fred Warner

If you get a cop Fred Warner pretty good. That's a pretty solid cop

And we know Adam Peters has experience with Warner from his San Francisco days

So I'm sure he saw some of that

In sunny styles hence why he made the pick well what they lacked on defense last year the most was

Speed and youth. Yep. Mm-hmm. They've infused the team defensively

For their new defensive coordinator with speed and youths. By the way, Frankie Louvre Frankie Louvre was getting

R.A.S. score shamed by his new linebacker crew because sunny styles scored a 10

Leo Chanel scored a 9.9 Frankie Louvre

He's got to do do R.A.S. at 3.91

3.95 he may not be in the long term plans

That's entirely that's another reason when we talked about the last night

It's another reason why they probably went to that position because who knows how long Louvre will share

So when they got to the seventh pick

Yeah, and you were a priority in your bed. I was I stayed up until after the Cowboys took

Downs

What did you think they were gonna do because as you mentioned there at seven

Uh, I thought it was carnal Tate had been drafted but Tyson was available the next best receiver

Um, you had Caleb Downs the safety available and you had sunny styles. Do you think it was gonna be styles? No

I knew it was gonna be sunny styles once he was there at seven once the chiefs picked the lane

Yeah, I mean, I just I do that Roger Goodell was gonna step to the podium and say sunny style

I was that was 50 50 on styles and downs. I didn't know just kind of a coin flip again styles one out just because of his

His his combine performance his combine performance mixed with the tape

sealed it

For Adam Peters and his staff and we talked about this we talked about the secondary

Last night and we talked about the secondary throughout I mean they added cross at safety. Yeah

I'm not saying that that means they couldn't have drafted another safety

They certainly could have but maybe they felt

Decent about that whereas they feel like there was a greater need at linebacker need have a bigger impact

Here's what Peter said about how they plan to use

sunny styles on defense

Given his versatility kind of how do you guys envision using him?

Yeah, I think that's one of the cool things because we have a really talented room

I think and and guys that are all very versatile

And so and we have a coaching staff that is really good about deploying those guys and so

I mean sunny's a guy you can play off the ball. You can play on the ball

You can you can mug up and blitz he there's so many different things you can do you can play Mike

The will play Sam you know that all those different things. He's got the size to play on the edge

And so um, he's really versatile and so

You we can kind of mix and match and deploy those guys and play you know as many linebackers we can on the field and

I'm excited to see what the guys will do with with Durante and EQ and and and can and those guys like they're gonna

They're gonna be able to get really creative

Yeah, we'll be interesting because most of the time last year they were seemingly just playing two linebackers

Yeah

And they do have edge rushers

But yeah, now you can use some of those guys to basically

Rush on the edge just think a styles can do a bunch of different things

You know what I mean? He's not just a live hacker versatile guy's gonna cover guys

You go out of the edge and go after the quarterback. I love it. I love the versatility. He brings to the defense

They're gonna use him all over the place. Yeah, I think you're I think commanders fans are gonna be

Very happy and excited including mr. Bickel

He might need some winning over eventually

He's probably gonna come around. We're gonna try and catch up with eb who's uh and route to Utah

For his daughter's volleyball tournament, but what he tweeted last night definitely upset the fan base

So he first

tweeted we drafted a project

Then this is an old-school name. He tweeted Mike Moula, Jr

Who was an Eagles draft choice that was a combine freak right?

And he got drafted high because he was had these ridiculous athletic scores

And then he didn't do anything in the process. He's gonna get the last laugh if Caleb Downs goes to Dallas

And he's an eight-time pro baller and turns around a future defense

And he's really good and if sunny styles face plants here in DC. Yeah, I just don't think that's going to happen

I don't think I think they're both gonna be really good. Yeah, I don't think sunny styles is jaman Davis part two

No, I don't either. I don't think that's gonna be the way it plays out for him

The way his story ends here in Washington, but I'm willing to give him a chance and see actually how good he is

In this defense led by Dan Quinn and Doranta Jones

Yeah

And when Eric says he watches when he was watching the highlights of of styles and he said nothing really jumped out

I don't I just think that's preconceived because you're already don't like him

When I'm watching highlights from this past year. He's just making plays all over the field right

I mean he is he's making tackles. He's behind a lot of scrimmage getting pressure on the quarterback

He's deflecting balls. Yeah, he's he's uh

He's covering tight ends and and running backs. I mean he's he's doing a ton more importantly

People that know way more about football and are paid way more to know more about football than everybody in this room

Right, they don't believe it's a project

Determined that sunny styles

Is a better player at least for them and for their system

Then Caleb downs was correct both of those players were readily available to be selected

And that doesn't mean that's the right pick because every guy who made a draft choice last night right from every team knows more than us

Yeah, and yet they missed make mistakes all the time. It's not perfect signs. I've never said it is

So just to use the argument that they know more than us. That doesn't mean they're right doesn't mean they're right

But that brain trust they spent months and months and millions of dollars

Re-searching these guys and they determine that styles is a better fit for them and a better player than Caleb downs

So you have like do you just have to beaters? You trust out in players and job he's doing some people don't if you don't if you trust

Out of Peters then you have to trust in him

making this selection

Should we go to the phones real quick? Let's go out to line two

Yeah, I think it's a ban ban you're over the junkies. What's up?

I think it's a good pick and I think the biggest reason is we're seeing a big change in the NFL

You're taking a look a lot of blurring between edges and linebackers and blurring between linebackers and secondary and diverse players or I should say

versatile players

are a must and it's like some stuff. I just heard a little while ago

She said that he made they may have changed the style a little bit because at Ohio State

He's a big fish and a big pond and when he comes here, he'll be a big fish and I'm not so big pond

So I think you'll see his numbers actually grow up and he shows he can learn and I got one other thing to say real quick

But yesterday you do not want to take a private jet to OC

I've flown private jet for work between

Well, it wouldn't be a private jet so Langley

And you don't you'll never get the speed. It's gonna be still gonna be a 40 minute trip because you never get up to speed and altitude

Get a tour button and live in luxury for the for the 120 miles

All right, thank you. Appreciate that

It's not gonna be a private jet with 10 seats is gonna be a legit jet with plain with 150

DC right big boy and like draps said last night or you have to say on the show. It's probably not gonna happen

It could be a pipe tree. Yeah, yeah

1636 1067 is the number talking about the commanders

Taking sunny styles with the number seven pick the linebacker from Ohio State

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I found a prediction commander

My own prediction. We'll see how it goes. That's my gut. That's my gut feeling

Hey Brian

Hello, yes sir. I'm telling good Mr. V is how you doing

So that was sunny styles predicting where he would go

And he was correct and you saw

If you were watching that which you weren't on radio

But he got the call from Adam Peters Dan Quinn jumped on the call with them and then Josh Harris jumped on the call

With him as well

sunny styles is the pick Adam Peters had a lot to say about it. I want to

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Adam Peters met with the media last night following the selection of sunny styles

I do want to play a lot of

This I you know there is a lot of discussion about deep Kansas City

Jump in front of Washington because Washington's pick was going to be Mansor Delaan

Had Cleveland stuck at six it was likely going to be an offensive lineman

Kansas City traded up. They took Delaan to replace Trent McDuffy

They don't have any corners after trading McDuffy

And they were able to land the

Certainly if not the best corner in the draft certainly the healthiest of the best corners

In the draft um

Was that going to be the pick for Adam Peters or was he just you know

Putting it out there enough that Kansas City was fearful jumped in front and took a player that wasn't sunny styles

And then Washington could take sunny styles

No one will ever know for sure

But I wanted to play a lot of what Adam Peter said last night following the selection

This was Adam Peters on the the moments of improvement that showed

You know in this year 2025 pro Ohio State that showed he can do it in the NFL

When you saw you talk about the improvement of a there's a linebacker

Where were there some moments that can that you saw maybe some really big improvements that kind of convinced you like

He's really taken off. This is a guy that can keep doing this in the NFL

Yeah, I think it really in every every kind of

portion of the game John I think

You know you see him playing in the box and using his hands and shedding blocks and and

Reading blocks and then getting to the getting to the ball and in planes like physical like taking on guards

And they got better and better and then as a blitzer he got better

And I think he's just scratching the surface there and he's gonna be a great blitzer and

So all those things that you know come with changing positions

You saw it kind of come to life and he saw it in the playoffs. I mean he played against Indiana

His game against Indiana was incredible

And you just made some big time plays in the Miami game as well Indiana wasn't playoffs, but

You know you know everything about them, so

Yeah, John went to a Ohio State. John's a bigger Ohio State guy John Kym is

He was outstanding in that big 10 title game against Indiana. No doubt about it. I thought

Two things about that answer from Adam Peters

Number one is I think that the thing that not everybody was talking about when it came to styles leading into the draft

Is gonna be featured in a Durante Jones defense and that is he can be an outstanding blitzing pass rusher

Secondly, you heard him emphasize, you know in the run game taking on guards and shedding guards and making tackles

That's the thing that

You know at the NFL level heading into it

Will be something that he's gonna have to prove that he can do at 65 to 44 as a former safety

You know in the box safety at times

But that's gonna you know there's a difference with you know big guards and big offensive lineman coming down and can you you know

Can you hang in there shed the block and make the tackles

But there was improvement there as you heard Adam Peters said sure they wanted to see that no doubt

Fred Warner's been comped

To sunny styles

And the interest that Washington

You know had in sunny styles heading into this draft was in part because in San Francisco Adam Peters when he was there

Knows what kind of impact a great linebacker like Fred Warner

Can have so he was asked about Ken styles have a Fred Warner style impact

You saw the impact that Warner made in San Francisco and

What kind of can he make that kind of an impact here and what what kind of impact could he make just overall like that

Yeah, I don't want I like I probably don't want to make the mistake again in comparisons

On Mac his Fred's you know, he's a gold jacket

So you know if he can be like Fred then then we're all gonna be really happy but um

You know sunny's

You know speaking just about sunny in his size and his length and his ability to cover the whole field

I think those things

For any NFL linebacker, you know that you cover those things and so

Yeah, I'd I'd kind of want to stay away from that knowing how good Fred is and then the person but they're both

You know elite people and and they're both guys that you want in your locker room for sure

You know the interesting thing about the Fred Warner comparison is when you look at him physically it's six five

He is the the tallest of

The the cops, you know, whether it's Fred Warner or Rokwan Smith or Zach Bond or

You know, um, I mean he's at six five two 44 he is taller longer and just growing into being a different body type

Then some of these guys and it'll be really interesting to see you know how that plays out

I guess the closest would be somebody like Tremaine Edmonds in terms of height

You know and weight and you know length

um

So that was him in talking about the Fred Warner

comp um

So there there was a question about the opportunity to trade down. I would suggest everybody

strongly suggest that trading back wasn't just on their mind, but it was on the minds of a lot of teams that weren't name the Raiders

Because this is that kind of draft in which there just was a big question mark about the number of true

You know projected

blue chip all pro perennial pro bowl kind of players

And so if you're not sure that these players are going to be that then get more picks

So I think that a lot of teams and Cleveland was the first to be able to do it

Arizona no one was willing to get up to three for whatever they were asking for

um

And Cleveland was the first to be able to do it and then it happened a lot

You know when we got to

After the top 10, but Adam Peters was asked about whether or not there was an opportunity to trade back here's what he said

Um a two-part question just a squeeze in another question um

Did you have an opportunity to move down and you know

Would you have taken it if he weren't still on the board and then um

I'll leave it

Yeah, um

It was kind of fine. We didn't we we did a lot of work on on the movedown

We did we spent a lot of time on it

Brandon back there was was with me

Looking at all the different iterations of moving back and and everything like that we didn't look to move up

um

But uh crickets as crickets so really we're just looking at my phone as man nothing so um you know

We're we're three or so like happy we're happy to stay and pick there

There you go um so

You you heard of me just said they were certainly looking at that I think a lot of teams were

In this draft uh, but where they were crickets and it was

You know, I think about the way the first round broke and it could have broken with

You know, Mendoza Bailey love styles

Uh, and then potential or Tate then styles

You know, and then at six. I mean Washington wasn't that far off with perhaps being faced with

Uh, you know a Reese

Answer at seven. I mean he only went two picks prior to that

But the fact that love and Tate and Bailey were off the board

That left kind of delaying in styles as the guy as they people as the two players that people were talking about the most

There was some downstalk and certainly there was some bane talk as well

But good job out of them, you know, they stay and they get you know a plug-and-play

At the very least a plug-and-play starting

Solid inside linebacker with a big brain a big brain on old brad

And sunny uh in this defense and a guy that can really really move to add to all of the other guys that can really

Really move um

This was Adam Peters

Uh talking about when he locked in on styles being the guy that they wanted

Adam at the uh league meetings

I asked you if you had already at that point knowing what guy you want you would want to get all things being equal

When did you kind of

What's I guess

When did you kind of lock in styles was a guy that you did want?

Yeah, but it was uh it is this week and

um

Yeah, but it was really cool. I just we got a lot of great input from everybody in the building, you know, coaches did a great job

Um, you know our R&D and and our scouting department to ask a lot of different guys are right here

This group of players who will likely be there what's your order and why and um, you know

So I was able to get a ton of different perspectives, you know, you get Brandon's perspective

You know, which is different than a scouts perspective

Which is different than R&D

So I really got to see you know all the different sides of the decision and that really helped crystallize the decision and then making it

You know, um

Just putting together tapes on all these guys and and you know

You fall in love with a lot of them because they're all really really good players and you know

There's a lot of really good players that got picked before us and then some after but you know sunny

That that would I felt really really good about him

Really throughout the process, but certainly

You know after the 30 visit and then this week

Kind of getting all that input

Yeah, I mean one of the things going to the offseason what

One of the things you hear from Adam Peters in that answer

Is just the uncertainty of everything related to post Mendoza in this draft like who's actually going to be there have no idea

They had no idea

Uh, and then comparing a lot of these players

You know, was there clearly a best player on the board or was it really close?

My sense is it was probably really close

Between a lot of guys and they weren't sure which one would fall to them

I mean he told you that was an honest answer to Ben's question

About when did you realize he was the guy this week

This week

And certainly the 30 visit helps

Um, but it was you know, this was a lot of I'm sure very close calls in terms of their board order

For sure

I don't know how they felt about Jeremiah love. It may have been that love was clearly their number one guy or maybe Tate would have been the guy had he fallen there

Um, well never know styles is a really good player though. This was Adam Peters on kind of what they learned about sunny styles the person

Hey, Adam. I guess it's good that it was crickets

That you couldn't hear anything

But while when you look at sunny you had a chance to talk to him beyond just who he is as a player

But that conversation with him as the person. What did you see most out of him as who he is that person?

Um, you know, he is an outstanding young man and um, but you know

The words I would you know just kind of you he's he's mature beyond his years

I think and

He's very curious he wants he wants to know what the great ones do he wants to know he wants to be great

He's really humble and he's very driven and so those things

You know made us all really confident that he's gonna reach his ceiling

Comes from a family of players his father was a player his brother's a player. He's a player um

You love that aspect of it, but by all accounts and we knew this leading up to the draft just

On all of the due diligence, you know checklists for these players sunny styles was a plus when it came to that

Downs was a plus when it came to that a lot of the guys in this draft were

At least according to you know the reporting all right. There's more Adam Peters to play including

Just on where this defense is now compared to where it was six weeks ago younger and a lot faster. He spoke to that

also talked about you know

What happened in front of them in the draft last night that started to make them realize that getting styles was possible

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Be I want to I want to get to a bunch of these calls because I want to make some time for NFC East and Forty Simpson

Okay, but I did want to let us hear from Daniel Jeremiah

His comments about styles. He had him. I think number three overall on his big board and styles

fell all the way to seven for Washington Jeffery if you have that

The DJ audio talking about sunny styles going to Washington

One of the leading draft analysts really in the country and a fun network. Daniel Jeremiah

It's the athleticism and the playmaking ability on tape as well as the person that you're getting and you want to know

He looks like on video here. It is provides that physical presence. Remember this is a former safety

Let's drop down and play the linebacker now very explosive

He can see little creases and he's able to use that explosiveness to shoot gaps and collect tackles for loss

You want to the ability to play off blocks to struck blocks get over the top

Not a problem then using that big frame just swallow up up all carrier

And you want to be able to rush him? Okay, we better get a hand on him because with that speed

He's going to close in the blink of an eye as you look at the side-by-side because I mean Kyle Hamilton

I mean, it's he's in a good neighborhood

He's certainly in a good neighbor. I like it

Um, quick twitch all of it man. Let's let these phone callers weigh in. Let's go to pee in landover. What's up? Be

My mind was like fairly

How are you buddy? It was hard to be mad. What's that brother?

Man, man, listen man. I'm excited about the pick. I think we just drafted like the first three levels

Defending hybrid whatever you want to call it

Now I think by the time he getting to us like his man finally be 21 right?

Yeah, too

21 by the time he get by the time he hit 25 26 when we build just like now good

So

I love the pick man. I know man. I the two dudes. I wanted was loving the lane. They was gone

My neck might have was sunny style

You know me. I had a penis and they got the same train brain

All right, bro. I appreciate the call man. Listen, Adam Peters went into the draft

With one thought don't overthink it

Don't let's just see how it let's see how it falls and let's see who's there

And I think they got the guy they wanted honest like you say last night

They did everything in one paper

Younger stronger and faster

Sure did man. That's what they wanted to do all off season bang with number seven. They did it

Um, our buddy Rusty's in Delaware. What's up Rusty?

fellas, how you doing happy

Take two of the NFL draft

You are super excited super excited about this pick guys. I mean

I was in the camp with the best player available and I think that that's who we got here six five two forty five

Incredible speed

But the thing that really set me off was

As big of a fan of football as I am I had no idea who his father was

And I have an uncle who's a die hard ran fan and he reached out to me last night and was telling me a little bit about his dad

And I'm a pedigree guy man

So if you've grown up in this world and you're committed to this thing and you've seen how it can be done at the highest

I think that we nailed the pick here and I was at the stadium last night for the draft party

I just wanted to say kudos to the team for putting that on that was a lot of fun

The proud definitely wanted Jeremiah love and when he went at three there was a huge gas from the crowd

including Jackson who was with me

but

After the pick was made you could tell the the vibe in the room was like hey, we got ourselves a player here

And I'm super excited to see him in burgundy and gold and big shout out to uncle Josh

Forgiving everybody a free hat last night with a new logo on it that was awesome dude

So I wanted to bring that up. Thank you for saying that rusty

So I saw tailgate Ted post a picture

V did you see the hats they gave out last night? No

It's the black uh spear logo hat okay

I

I saw a couple guys with it on last night in Pittsburgh

Jeff were you there did you go to the party last night? Yes, I was how was it well um it was good

The the commanders are you working or no, I was I was just there okay

The command man shout out to them. They are really like

Uping the fan experience. They're making it better year by year

Yeah, and last night it was very cool everyone on the field stage DJ cool performed um

It was it was nice the hats they they were giving them out big buckets

I think everyone left with at least one hat yesterday. I made you leave with

I left with one

And one for your cousin

Now because I get one in my in my give back

Uh when we started the season so

I was you know make sure everyone else get one but one thing I got to say JP

This is to all Washington fans

We have got to stop trying to jump on the next big thing that we think will be good because it was crazy

Everyone was like germ i love germ i love when he went everybody was like oh man

We wanted him to do it and then bill came on the stage and everybody like bill

I say I said y'all fake man y'all

That's funny um

What so love goes and everybody's like uh what was it like when tape went?

It was the same thing well

Love was love was the bigger letdown I should say to everyone because when when they said germ i love

Everyone's like oh like you can see it everywhere. I'm just looking around like

Okay, we knew it nothing is definite like

They had the hopes but nothing was definite like I don't think anyone called carnell tape going to the Titans yesterday

Nope and no one was like whoa whoa that was our second guy and then

Um Caleb Gounds that was another one a lot of people wanted and it was like the giant's gonna take him and they was like

After the giants didn't take them

They're like oh my gosh, we're going to get them and then sunny styles came and it was like a mixed reaction

It was some people that were like yeah sunny

I was running in people because I was ruined for him and then other people was like why we didn't get down

He was right there

I just simply looked at him and told him

APC stuff that we don't

Yeah, that's his job man. Yeah, that's his job um

How many people were there good crowd. Oh, it was a good crowd good. It was a crowd um

They had a lot of stuff for the kids which was amazing. I'm talking about you know the bounce

Houses but they're like they're like

It's like race lanes. Yeah, the kids got a race. Yeah, they had that they had

Football drill is going. It was a nice event. It's good man. I'm glad folks got to enjoy it

I want to get back to these phone you guys involved with

What do you say

Did you do the football event? Oh, no, you always want to be like I can get an athlete. No, I will I will finally do my fitness test this year

Finally, four years later 90 pounds less look I'm off for self embarrassment, but that would have been two embarrassed

So I'm here now

All right, let's let's round out these folks because I want to have a Thai Simpson conversation

Andre is in Manassas. What's up, Dre

Hey

I was

I'm a fan. I'm just a dude. I don't know anything. I digress to you guys, but I was disappointed with the pick um, you know

I shaved the chase young big six foot guy coming out of Ohio State six foot six guy comes from Ohio State and I just can't shake and I know

Everyone's different. It's been like 10 years now since chase young, but you know sometimes I'm looking at these Ohio State players

And I think sometimes they're

Was some of their parts there. It's a good team. It's a good squad. They have all these great talents

And I think sometimes, you know, they they look good because it's a complete team as opposed to I guess I was pulling for bain

Because I saw what this guy did

Todd this feed and now he does manhandle people

But um, he's he's a he's a commanding house letting styles and wishing the best

You know, I hope we did he does well and teach you all the favor, but um

I don't know. I mean it's watching to draft everything leading up to the draft everybody particularly moving bain

I mean they don't look at his hand size don't look his hand size and they kept on saying that

Um always on like yeah, just look at his tape look at the tape and I just feel like people just look at the

The long length of the post of the tape um, so you know 12 13 teams that drafted um before the Tampa Bay did I suppose

Dre, I appreciate the call man. Um, if you wanted bain

Cool, I get that like I'm not gonna knock you for that. He was

And I like him. I really like him. He was a super high productive player on a really good football team. I get that

I don't get a chase young cop. I don't I don't get that at all, but like listen man

I really like bain, but I understand what they did with this

And it's okay to want somebody, but you got to be able to move man

So I look that river mirror got a lot of people got to give really river mirror look through the damn big

Did you wish you

And and it's first in high state. So I'm looking in the past man. Ohio State

I believe is the most first round picks in the NFL draft ever um, I think it's like Ohio State USC and then Bama

Did they have five in the first five this week and five in first seven

Yeah, four four. I mean three or four. Yeah, they take Reese

Um

Styles in the first seven

Yeah, three in the first seven four in the top 12. Yeah, maybe 11 wherever downs one um

I'm not gonna worry about Ohio State players like I remember do you remember what I thought was just so stupid

was

Prior to Joe burrow quarterbacks drafted out out of LSU hadn't had much NFL success

And people were like man, I don't know about burrow like are you nuts?

I don't know you

What's the the phrase in scouting that a lot of people may not know

If that fans might not know is at every scouting event you go to there's a commonly used phrase don't scout the helmet

So like you the key is to scout the person not the helmet because the helmet shows you what team they're on

But that doesn't matter at the combine or the senior bowl or whatever so

If you wanted a different player, I get it. I'm not gonna worry about the Ohio State thing

I'm not gonna. I don't think there's a comp to chase young whatsoever

Especially that was number two versus number seven. Look at the draft value charts. Look how different that is

Um, let's go to gym in LA. What's up Jim?

Hey, how you doing? Thank you for taking my call

Thanks, dude. I wanted to say we're a super happy out here in Los Angeles

SoCal Redskins fan club really happy with sunny style pick

I just wanted to ask your opinion on

And I don't know if it's a direct comparison or not

But look at it tape. He seems to explain display a lot of leadership styles

Similar to London Fletcher who had a great read on the game. What are your thoughts on that comparison?

Um, we'll see how they play. I mean styles from a body type. They're quite different. Different style

Styles is six five two forty London was five ten two forty

So the speed's gonna be different

They're past to the NFL was different

But I mean, dude if you get a career like London, that's pretty damn good. He he's like he was calling the defense and stuff up and

And he seemed to be the leader of that team with all those alpha males on that team just astral driven dudes

He was he seemed to be the leader of them

Well, this is from Nikki job volas piece in the athletic. I'm reading now

Yet styles as greatest strengths may be the intangible parts of his game

He can quickly diagnose offenses and react accordingly

Rarely appearing as a player with minimal experience at the position

He was also voted a team captain and given the prestigious black zero jersey last year awarded annually at Ohio State to the player who exemplifies toughness

Accountability and high character and much like quarterback jaden Daniels who impressed the commanders with his drastic improvement in college

Styles growth at linebacker and desire to be great solidified the team's interest

So I think if you're wondering what it's like off the field

It sure looks like it's pretty damn good

Keep the phones go in here

Black hero j block

Block zero. I'm sorry. That's it black. Yeah

Paul is in Germantown. What's up Paul?

Hey guys, I just wanted to call a real quick my god sons in a Ohio State grad and he called me before the draft

And told me sunny styles was had so much upside and and as the draft was going and

The picture coming in we our household got so excited when he fell to us

So I think I think you've got the most upside. I know the downs were so solid

But I think sonny's they really make it in touch

Appreciate comment. Appreciate you man

Yeah, be

Thanks for the call Paul Joey just texted me

Hey Joey asked so we're saying sunny styles has good skin tangibles

Oh lord

I thought you'd like that

Boris spelled correctly is in Dallas. What's up, Boris?

What are JP? What are you guys? What's that brother?

And nothing much nothing much right now. I'm happy. I want to thank the football gods

For sending us this plan because I want to ask I want things

Do you think this is a spiritual

Pit to ask ask yourself how many sonny's are in the NFL last three I know with sonny Ferguson

The sonny Ferguson said this sunny style to us

You gonna play like sonny Ferguson think about that

I don't know about that far but hey if it is I'll take it

We'll find out man appreciate the call Boris. Thank you, buddy

um

Let's go to dc. What's up, dude? Oh my god. I made it. What's up, brother?

What's up, dude? We good. We're good. We're good. I'm so tired of hearing these

What's in Tony is these

Where's the command of football

Like we in the field. Oh, we finally got a super stop. I'm so tired of us

Passing on somebody they become somebody superior

Also real quick off the cuff my favorite race get up all the time is multi-colon

Y'all saw the mom early. Mm-hmm. He's the greatest risk and I've ever known because the thing. I loved about him

Every year when you got ready for chain crab. He's I'm just trying to make the uh

Special teams

We need characters like him and I think sunny style will fit that bill

Appreciate you, buddy. Thank you for the call

I my only disagreement with with dc there. I think the reactions

Pretty damn positive. Don't you Brian?

For the most part you get a lot of people trying to they call it and they try to go around about way of telling you they don't like the pit

You know so but I know exactly what you mean, but like just stated

It was mixed last night

You know because they didn't get what they wanted and I would say you can't go into the draft having one guy on your mind

If we get him it's great if we don't it's bad because it's too many damn good athletes in this draft

Right now here's a here's an old friend being that I don't think we've heard from in months

numb clown is checking why numb clown where you've been dude

I

I mean I'm actually in the process of trying to move back to the MV from Texas. So okay, you got down there like

I say start smelling like manure. You want to come back huh?

Now you know what my dancing and your taxes didn't go on up and never like I don't know that that change my mind. Hell yeah, they have

Yes, I need

Coming for you to be Virginia thought they had a good

We do but real quick. I got two things for others and I'm gonna go ahead and let the other people have it

um

First off, I got a question for you be rich for

You know as you miss anything

But um first off, I love the pick with Sonny. I've always wanted Sonny from the moment, you know

The season was over it. I agree with the pick because you're not going to get

Another sunny styles and the draft, you know, he's I my opinion he's generation

I'd be with Jeff on the aspect that we had too many fans who don't do that all research and looking to stuff because they look that

Uh love especially this season you and see love didn't really compete too much with you know

Saying the best talent on defense the opposing defenses where he got all you know

He earned a lot of his money trying to just change who are on the bottom half

Uh, you know pretty much just bad defenses and to me that don't translate well to the NFL

You know, I mean, and I was in my own research. I lifted the all 22 and I watched everything and my thing

You know what I don't know if I really want that and they call it him a generation of money bet that don't seem

Generationally, you know, take Juan Barclay's a generation on and bet he did it against all competition

Not just the lower competition

So I think we did the right thing by picking you know, Sonny. I don't think it was a choice anywhere because

I think he went higher

But you know, it is what it is. I like the peak. I think Sonny's gonna be here for the next decade

And a half and he's gonna retire a

Commander

So I was raised and whatever you know, I got whatever y'all want to call him but

At the end of that I feel it's a great kid now. Thanks for the call number climb good to hear from you

I like with the move brother. Appreciate you man

Good

Friday afternoon and welcome into Grant and Danny April 24th

20 26 you are listening live to the fan. We've got a full show tonight

Four and a half hours for you taking you up to six thirty on the fan and we are looking ahead

To rounds two through seven in the NFL draft with pick seven and the selection of sunny styles

In the rearview mirror our buddy Charles Davis is on the show today at three

Very few people when it comes to the draft we like talking to more

You're going to hear what our pal Logan Paulson thought about the sunny styles pick that's at five o'clock tonight

Right here on the fan Danny. I had a blast a long day. Yes, sir

Wouldn't have rather done it with anybody else kicking it with you deep into the evening

watching you nervously eat and then

eventually

See you be as excited as you were after the sunny style selection

It happened the commander's got a player they actually wanted got to a good place and

Appreciate honor brewing for having us appreciate everybody that came out the place was packed

So it was the unique experience because the radio feed where you and I got to listen in our headphones

Is what 30 seconds maybe ahead of kind of where the TV was so you and I get notified as to the picks

And so we're reacting to that to the radio audience

And the folks in the crowd that are there I mean they're hundreds of people that packed in and around this bar

There's this amazing outdoor space indoor everything in between TVs everywhere

So the first shocker carnal tape goes at four and the oh like the big groan kind of happens

And then things are kind of setting up the trade then once Mansaur d'Alene goes now there's an anticipation

Rising with after after Kansas City trades up against d'Alene at six. Oh my god. This could be styles

It could be downs like they've got a lot of options here holy crap

What's gonna be either way? It's a really good player for their defense

Sonny styles hits the place erupts. It was awesome

What a cool feeling man that that was a lot of fun last night

Yeah, we talked about every different possibility and went through all of the permutations for months leading up to the draft

One of which was sunny styles to the nation's capital

But that cooled as of the combine because he went and put on such a show

He was so incredible in Indianapolis that for the moment it looked like he was going to be at top three

And certainly no worse than a top five pick. It wasn't until the last couple of weeks as you started to find out

The Cardinals might actually go way off the grid here and take Jeremiah love

The Titans could actually get creative and take not not just an edge, but maybe you know go to the secondary or something

You started to think maybe just maybe he slides

But the chances still felt like they were sub 25% and it was carnal take going forth to Tennessee that opened the door

To me that's when the whole night really changed the love pick while a dream for a lot of commanders fans died on the vine

Made it a lot easier for the commanders to get one of the defensive players they wanted and make no mistake about it

For all of the dialogue about Jeremiah love we're guilty

And I'm certainly guilty of a lot of that and for all of the discussion about the wide receivers both of those things would have made a lot of sense

What I learned before the draft last night was that in the building and in that or room they wanted a defensive standout

And sunny styles if he fell into their lap where one of the edges David Bailey or Arville Reese was the hope

They were prepared to go with Mansor to Lane who the chiefs snipe them for it pick number six

If they had to do that Caleb downs. I think would have been a very strong

Consolation prize as well

But because the Titans took carnal tape which nobody saw coming

Because Arville Reese the other of the two edges went to the giants where he was not mocked very often

It opened the door at number seven for the commanders to get one of the highest ranked players on their board

With the seventh pick in the 2026 NFL draft

The Washington commander select

sunny styles

Limebacker Ohio State

The moment they got on the clock after the chiefs trade up because you're going all right

They're getting ahead of Washington. Are they doing it to take the lane after trading

McDuffie or to take styles knowing that the commanders might take him when they took the lane Danny right then at six

I feel like it was a lock almost guaranteed that styles was going to be wearing burgundy and gold

I still

Wasn't as sure as you because it certainly the opportunity presented itself when I didn't think it would be there even

you know

20 minutes before but as as soon as tape went

Ford to Tennessee

That changed the calculation because you're starting to go okay one of Reese Delane styles or downs

Will mathematically be 100% available for Washington then Reese goes unexpectedly

I think five not the Reese shouldn't have gone there

But the fact that he didn't go earlier was kind of the stunner

I think the giants that probably wasn't their plan. They've got edge right

That's the one position they've got good edge Russia

But they said this guy's too good to pass up the upsides too good so they go Reese there so now again

You're doing the math Kansas City has moved up because they think Washington's going to do something is going to take their guy

So again the calculation became this is either

Delane styles or downs

Delane is off the board that leaves that leaves two guys that would kind of fit that bill probably too early for Tyson

I don't know how much they trusted him

But I've said they're going

This really could happen and it ultimately did I was still wasn't as sure as you there was going to be styles

But when it hit it was pretty exciting the phone call was in and made by Adam Peters

When you hear Dan Quinn address sunny styles and the phone call the team put out last night

You could just see how excited he is at his core Dan Quinn who played on the defensive line

At Salisbury, you know, this is a guy that is a defensive coordinator at heart

He was calling plays in the second half of last season in his element

You know how fired up he was to draft and I'm not exaggerating right now one of the greatest athletes

One of the greatest size and speed profiles in the history of the national football league

Hello

Sunny

Hello

Sunny you hear me

Adam Peters with the commanders how are you doing bud

I'm doing great man, I knew I like we were hoping you'd fall to us and you did man

We're going to make you this pick at pick seven

I couldn't be more excited you are everything we embody in a commander

Um, and you're just scratching the surface, dude. You're so good now

You're going to be

Welcome you here and have you be the key part of our defense for 10 years to come

So I appreciate you appreciate you're ready to get to work. Yeah, how are you doing?

Where you at in the green room? Yeah, I'm in the green room with my family. Yeah. Well tell me a commander buddy

I'm going to hand you that coach Quinn right now. All right. Yes, sir

Hell yeah, sunny

It's not closed. What's up, man? We talked about this in the uh in the office making it happen and like here

I told you I'm going to be bad. I already know you would be back, man. You're a true bad mother. I am

I can't wait to coach you bro. I cannot wait so

Where do you work coach and no doubt? I'm going to pass you along to our owner Josh here. So here he is, but congrats

It's sir. All right. Thank you

Hey, Sunny

Can't wait to see you in DC

You're going to kill him. So how are we going? Are you with your mom and dad or

Yes, sir. I'm on my mom and dad. All right. We'll look enjoy this night

I mean you really killed it to get here and we are so excited

You're going to be a commander and you can't wait to meet you tomorrow

That's all I appreciate it. We can meet you. All right, man. Celebrate up. We'll see you tomorrow. That's all for you

You're right. Yes. All right, man. I appreciate you. Yes, sir. See you soon

Yes, sir. Bye-bye

That was the call from the commanders to sunny styles the team put out on social

I always wonder so Dan Quinn references this conversation that took place in the coaches off uh-huh where he says to him

We talked about this

We talked about making this happen. Obviously meaning drafting you

I wonder how many of those conversations he had is sunny styles the only guy that in Dan Quinn's office over the last few weeks on those 30 visits

That he said hey, we got to make this happen. I want you or does he tell seven or eight guys that

Thinking maybe you're the pick and then he could have said that to a bunch of different guys on that phone call

I bet you say that to all the draft prospects

No, I mean

Yeah, cuz again, you're in your independent spot

The giants could have snatched your dream right there at five they had the power to do so somebody traded up ahead of you

Could have absolutely done it, but yeah, it certainly worked out that way, but I would bet

I would I would bet he only said that to sunny styles you think yeah, but I think it's limited

I don't think you say that to everybody you go on a date with

I think there's probably some people that come home occasionally and you wake up and have some breakfast with

That you don't use those words with but I'll bet you it's a select group

I think he may have said that to like three guys, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I think I think they made the most serious overtures to sunny styles

And may have said really nice things demands or delay and may have said some really friendly stuff to carnival tape as well

But I don't know that it was that

One thing I know is sunny styles was on the record before the draft is saying he thought Washington was gonna be the pick

So when he tells you last night

This was the feeling I had you could do the same thing. I just did with Dan Quinn. Yeah

Did you though or you just saying that

Bleacher report followed him around basically over the last 48 hours leading up to the draft

He was in the barber chair getting his hair did

And they asked him

Where did he think he was gonna go? How is this going to end up? And this is what sunny style said then

My final prediction

Commanders final prediction

We'll see how it goes

That's my gut. That's my gut feeling

Love that

That you know why I like that so much Daniel her career wasn't is because

It means the vibes were so good between him and the team in the building

He talked a lot in interviews leading up to the draft when he was in New York about how much he liked Peter's and

Quinn and really hit it off with Dorante Jones and the coaching staff

But when you're asked by a national outlet

Before the draft your prediction it tells you that he felt like his relationship with them

Was more special or unique than the other teams and that makes me feel really really good about the pick

I like that too. Yeah, I like the

The idea that they are you're you're able to make them feel welcome so quickly right where you know

I bet you a lot of the potential draft picks the prospects left feeling pretty good and pretty positive

That's kind of stuff that matters

So when you we kind of roll our eyes sometimes at those top 30 rankings not top 30 the NFL you know

How you treat your players rankings right NFL PA thank you the NFL PA rankings

And something like that's nice. Please one more games like I'd rather be 32 and go 17 to know

But that's kind of where you can put some of those deposits in right so a lot of guys came here

Didn't end up as the pick but probably have a good association with Washington

Maybe they're free agents down the line

Maybe you remember that meeting you had with the GM or the owner or hey was it gonna work out this time because someone else took you

But just keep us in mind. I mean that that sort of thing is valuable

We were on air through 11 east time last night by the way the entire first round spanned only three hours

the

expediting of round one to eight minutes between picks of which by the way

I would say half of the teams in the second half the first round didn't even use all eight minutes

I mean there was a point where there was a backlog of like four picks at the league headquarters where you know

Teams had already turned in picks like three four down the way and they haven't even gotten out to the podium yet

I wonder if they're gonna stick with the eight minutes because the draft came really fast and furious

But if they wanted it to be three hours, which is the length now of a good movie from Marvel

They got what they wanted it was over right around 11 eastern

But if you guys listen to the draft show on the fan it it was a blast to do as you said out of honor brewing

You've heard a lot of our thoughts on sunny styles, but here we are first crack at it right out of the shoot in our first

A traditional show on G&D post draft

So my synopsis was all along. This was my favorite defensive player

This was the guy I've been smitten with the most other than Jeremiah love and as soon as love went third

And I didn't think that was realistic anyway that he would get there

He becomes the top priority and edge would have made more sense like if I could have taken baili or styles

Even though I'm more enamored with styles because he's more unique

I would have taken baili if I could have taken Reese or styles even though my man crushes on styles because

There's never been anybody quite like him in this position

I would have taken Reese because of the positional value in the upside

But sunny styles despite playing a lesser valued position is a one of one

If you guys do card packs that you tear open and you collect cards

When you see the one of 10 or whatever you're looking for like it's the more special card. It's worth something

People on this planet are not as big as him that are moving like him

It doesn't exist

Athletically speaking

This is a one of one prospect the RIS score relative athletic score that Adam Peters value so much

Which is how you know the commanders we're gonna be all over them

There have been 3,215 linebackers graded from 87 to 2026

He's number one of 3,215 linebackers in athleticism his broad jump is fourth best all time at the position

His vertical jump is the best all time at the position

He is the same height as Calvin Johnson the same weight as Derek Henry

He is faster than be John Robinson in CD lamb and he's the same vertical a vertical leaping ability of dunk champion Nate Robinson

This guy was built in a laboratory when Artemis too flew past the moon

They looked out the window. Do you see the the cell phone video that that one astronaut read whatever his name is put out

If you look really closely sunny styles is hatching out on that space rock flying around

This dude is unlike anyone else on the planet

So allow me to salivate and dream about the possibilities here of Durante Jones cooking as a coordinator with this moldable play

You want to talk about him as a green dot a mic linebacker. That's what he is. He's also been a safety

I think you can also come off the edge

It would be malpractice to just line him up as a mic linebacker and never move him around

He should play everywhere in a positionless defense

This is a one of one athlete. Yeah, this this fits real well

With that kind of thing the the thing I built Simmons. I think one this years ago

But the town hall defense is the thing that I covet and crave I don't want to everyone know

I don't want everyone to know who's going where I want the defense to know I want them to communicate

Which they don't hear they have to keep simplifying coverages year over year because these guys couldn't get right

But I want mix and match I want

Versatile people that are worldly athletic that know where they're supposed to go and get there quickly

And that's kind of what they've done now they've taken a defense that was slow

Plotting ineffective that did nothing well usually a defense could turn you over some but you'll get a score some points

Or you could score some points by or you can't score points, but they're never any turnovers

This defense did nothing well no turnovers

No stopping anybody at any time it was a disaster and it's been awful for years even before this regime

They did a makeover they said speed immediately immediately immediately that's what we care about we care about the speed

We're not going to lose tough and start against the outside runs. We don't care. We have speed now speed

We'll figure the rest of it out. That's what they've done here. So

I think my favorite

Potential prospect for Washington was David Bailey that was never realistic

But that dream scenario where a line that or two goes and uh, you know

Reese had gone to and who knew what what could have happened

I think that guy's plug and play defensive end

It's worth $50 million on a couple of years as these extensions kind of keep going up and up and up

Right, and I wanted that value

Styles is too

He endowns to me it had been either one of those guys I'd have been thrilled that they both are our weapons been in different way

The athleticism of styles just makes it so appealing. I understand anybody who watched the draft last night and said

I don't love taking a linebacker in the top 10 because you can get that picking lower in the first or higher in the second round

Typically, that's true

I even understand if someone looks at sunny styles and says

really good player at Ohio State

but

Lettically

The idea of him and basically the fluidity of the the

Body with the size is more captivating and leads to more intrigue than maybe what he is presently

That might even be accurate in the moment

But he is the type of guy. This is what the drafts all about like you've got to find a way now to turn him into the best version of himself

And what is that ceiling? It's a potential game record

So yeah, you could sit here today and we're going to cover this from all angles and look at the

Possibilities of if he's slow to develop or they put too much on his plate and what that looks like very possible

But I also think that the beauty of the draft and the fun of the draft is that immediately after you pick someone

you're

Talking about what I'm speculating on when I talk about his athleticism is the best case scenario because that's there too

That hope that springs eternal here on April 24th, but to get to know sunny styles

This is a 21-year-old 65 and 244 who's born and raised in Ohio

Basically, everything he ever did was in the shadow of the Ohio State Buckais facility

His father was a super bowl champion linebacker on the same Rams team as London Fletcher

His brother is a little bit older than him is probably getting drafted tonight

In fact, I'm told sunny's going to leave the facility as quick as he can after his opening press conference

So he can get back for the draft party with his brother a junior

Who's got a chance to be drafted in rounds two or three?

But he played weak side linebacker for Matt Patricia in the 425 converted safety the last two years

He made 182 tackles as a senior captain he wore the block. Oh, which the players vote on is kind of a character and a makeup thing

And is given out of the Ohio State for the the guys that have all the intangibles off the field

But it's it's speed and size and it's one of the most impressive athletic

Profiles and prospects you're going to see

Youngest of four boys

Parents met at Ohio State dad was a third-round pick in 95

Started calling him sunny at two years old partly based on you'll like this Danny the character in the godfather

Because it's two years old he had a little bit of a temper. So his dad started calling him sunny

Like baseball basketball football graduated high school. I've seen some basketball highlights by the way

Buddy, he graduated high school a full year early. I like that acumen

You know, I like some of the the smarts and diagnosing things and the last thing I'll tell you about sunny styles

You know, it is actual name is

Alexander

Alexander's and DC sportsman

Might be timed up to start a new right? We got one exiting stage left. Why not bring in another great little torch pass

I don't want to write

You got sunny jurgensen

Unfortunately leaves us this year. There aren't that many sunnies in the NFL another sunny comes to DC

Where in the burgundy and gold but the pick sunny styles one of you from you guys next been waiting to chat with you since last night

We'll open up the phones eight hundred six three six one oh six seven

What did you think about how things played out in front of the commanders in the top six eight hundred six three six one oh six seven

What did you think about choosing styles over some of the options that were there including Caleb Downes the possibility of a trade back

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