COMMANDERS SQUAD | Roster RESET: Lattimore GONE, O-Line Moves, and a WILD Draft Board at Pick 7

A whole lot of changes for the commanders. We just got to the start Melissa of the offseason.

I am sad about some of the guys that we are no longer going to see anymore, but we'll talk about it.

We'll have a lot of, I'll be a therapeutic session today.

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All right, she is Melissa Kim. I'm Nick Ashu.

David Harrison is going to join us in a few minutes as well here with the commanders.

Making a bunch of roster moves. Some are saying bye-bye. Some are saying we're going to keep you around.

And we're getting closer now to free agency. We're getting closer to the draft.

Is there is constantly lying season that just continues to come around?

How chaotic this draft could actually be?

We'll look at that too, but Melissa, we're going to start with Marshawn Ladimor.

Done the team announced that he was going to.

It wasn't really announced. Let's put it this way.

The news is out there that Marshawn Ladimor won't be back.

The team is going to release them. The team is going to move on.

We knew, look, we knew this was going to be the case.

It's not even about saving money when it comes to the salary cap.

Though they are going to save 18 and a half million dollars.

It's so much more about the fact that this just didn't work from the beginning.

You traded for Marshawn Ladimor knowing that there were injuries and it was pre-agency.

Well, it's about next year and it's late in the jump on next season.

Well, then he was hurt again and then he tears an ACL.

And I know the whole team was hurt and we dealt with plenty of that.

But this was a trade that never worked.

I'm going to say something that's going to piss a lot of people off.

But I'll say it anyway, this is good that they were willing to do this now.

And admit their mistake and move on from it.

Because you can't change the fact that it didn't work.

You could have decided that instead you're going to drag this out.

Give him another year, see if he can get healthy, give him one more opportunity.

But I give Adam Peters credit because he after this trade up, it did not work.

You thought it was going to be the right move.

It wasn't an instead of saying, well, let's give him another year.

Nope, they said, ah, this isn't working.

Move on, we're going to go our separate ways.

That shows that there's at least a level of mental security there in the front office,

where you're not going to try and prove something is going to work down the road.

It's all right.

Fine. We're cutting our losses and we're moving on.

Yeah, and I think that's really important.

Not saying that there isn't any like, you know, emotions involved in this.

But the Adam Peters was able to move on with him from Latamore without having some kind of emotional attachment.

You know what I mean?

Because like crazy.

I think that that's actually a factor.

But it is you look at some of the other teams that have held on to guys for a little bit too long to the point where it was detrimental to the team as a whole.

And like, look, I mean, I think that what originally I'm not going to lie when I heard about the Latamore trade.

I think it 2014.

I was like.

He's still, he's still like, okay, because he is kind of on the orders.

You know, I mean, no offense to him.

Obviously, but there is like an age out process sometimes when it comes to some of these scale positions.

And look, obviously the injury played a part.

He only played nine games, you know, last season.

So it's good that they were able to cut the cord quickly.

Because I think about, again, in my time with the Ravens when they had Hollywood Brown on the team still.

And Eric DeCosta, the general man, or even admitted to us at one point that he had an emotional attachment to Hollywood Brown.

Because it was the first draft pick that he had made when he was officially the GM.

You know what I mean?

So it obviously meant something to him.

And I think that they might have held on to him for a little bit longer than they should have.

But it's good to see that, you know, that they are moving on quite quickly.

I mean, right now, as you said, Nick, literally my phone is like buzzing.

Like I mean, multiple times a day with all the alert.

I know.

Guys that are, you know, going into free agent, being not being held and, you know, going into free agency.

Like the Tri-Hedrick something just happened, you know, literally moments on the air.

So it's that time of year where before we hit free agency that, you know, everyone's cutting their losses, so to speak or like moving on from guys that they don't necessarily think that will work out for them in the long term in the future.

So again, I'm with you on that.

Come and Adam Peters for not having any emotional attachment and being able to see the big picture in terms of what this defense actually needs come the free agency and the draft.

And it's important to remember that too.

Like these are people.

These are guys with lives and, you know, sometimes it really just doesn't work out and it's not, you know, it's not always.

I think thought of with people of like, oh, well, there's these connections of like coaches and players in front of his person.

That does exist, but you sometimes have to overlook that.

And I think that that's important because as much as you may.

Hate the patriots from their previous era, the Tom Brady, Bill Bella, check air.

Melissa, what is something that they were always willing to do?

They were willing to cut bait and move on from players very quickly.

And I look at the cut throw league and I get it.

You look at that and go all these guys like loss or jobs.

I mean, listen, most of them are still making very good money.

Even if it's the veteran minimum and they're in a spot where they can, you know, still live comfortably and get an opportunity to go somewhere and play somewhere else.

And this stuff does get forgotten at times around this time of year.

But the reality is is you've got to be able to assess the situation and understand that it just didn't work and you're going to move on from it.

And that's something that you have to own up to if you're Adam Peters.

Here's the thing.

Not every trade is going to work out.

Not every draft pick is going to work out.

That is a guarantee that not every player is going to turn out the way that you thought they were going to be, whether it's trade or draft pick or whatever.

And look, there's a reason why we just had the combine.

We got pro days coming up and you're watching all of these little things, right?

And you're watching every little detail and they're analyzing players and they're, they're measuring every little measurement that they can appropriately.

And they're, they're in these spots where they're sitting around here and asking these weird questions of players.

They're doing this because they want to get as much information as they can and avoid as much risk as they can with whoever it is they're going to draft, especially when it comes to the first round.

One thing of you draft a guy in the fourth, fifth, sixth round doesn't work out.

Most people don't expect that to be the case anyway, but it's the trades where you're giving up multiple picks like a March on ladder more.

It's the first round picks like the commanders with that number seven overall pick and whoever it is they end up going with.

These are all risks. This is how it works. There is a level of gamble that you are involving when you trade for a player when you draft anybody hoping that it's going to work out in your eyes.

It's going to work out in your mind. It's going to work out in all the metrics and numbers and maybe a eyes involved and you've done all this analytical work that you possibly can.

It doesn't mean it's always going to work out.

So this tells me that at least you have a front office that's not willing to drag something out beyond that.

And look, I've said this as much as it sucks. If we're honest with ourselves Melissa athletes are treated like appliances the minute they start making a clanging noise or not working properly.

You're going to get replaced with a new shiny object. It's how it works. It's it's cut throat in a lot of ways, but that's the reality of this business and that's an example of it right there.

Yeah, a couple things like yeah, I think first of all, I think March on that he'll be fine.

Yeah, I mean, he has had a story career with New Orleans. I think that he is somebody is going to pick him up. I'm sure, you know, so there's that aspect of it. Secondly, I said this last week, but I kind of like hate all like the calm.

Like, you know, I mean like the combine and like the pro days and stuff like that, which I mean, I understand like why we do it.

I hate like just hate it in general. Like you just don't.

I mean, you know, I mean, because like you just you just don't know like I mean, and it is a risk obviously to put all your stock and like, you know, a couple players and stuff like that.

But at the same time, like, how do you know that the size of his hand is going to make him a great.

I mean, obviously, like if your hand is bigger, obviously like, you know, like logical thinking like you'll be able to catch the ball better things like that.

If you're if you run like, you know, like a four or two, your office is going to be fast, like, you know what I mean.

But like I just because sometimes intangibles, right, I've built a career on storytelling.

I just tell stories about players with intangibles and like those factors like always come into play.

Like obviously Tom Brady is the prime example of that.

But like just because he's like a number one, you know, first round traffic doesn't mean that he's going to be like the second coming of.

I don't even know who like you know, I mean, so that's why I hate those things like in a way because like, okay, because on the flip side, like you have all these guys with amazing immeasurable.

You know, I mean like statistically like whatever they add up so well.

But then what about some of the other guys that might not be the tell us like might not be able to might not have the biggest hand like you know what I mean.

They can end up being great players too. And I feel like sometimes a lot of those guys get overlooked.

Like obviously they end up on, you know, under active rage and contracts, they end up on a P squad somewhere and like they get that opportunity.

And those are the stories that we love so much is when like, you know, like a guy who played and D2, like, you know, and is on somebody's P squad and ends up being like, you know, a star, you know, I mean in the league.

So that is why I kind of do not love. I don't know if I say, hey, but I do not love like the combine and pro days to that extent.

But when you were talking about this being a business like, yeah, it definitely is a business for sure. And like I think a lot of players, those some of the ones that are a little bit more successful are the ones that kind of look at from that aspect.

But then again, I bring in the intangibles again because what can you bring that's unique about you that no one else is going to bring to the locker room.

That's why guys, obviously, they're still very good, but guys like a Bobby Wagner, you know, are still around, you know, guys like.

Yes, we're able to play for so long because what are they bring like yes on the field stuff with the off the field stuff, the locker room culture.

They're able to be like OBJ is not going to think of two like able to bring a locker room culture and able to like, you know, make sure that everybody meshes with each other and that everybody gets along with each other because like that kind of team chemistry, those are things that you can't really put a price on.

Those are things that like not monetarily, you can't like measure like I mean, well, you get like X million number of dollars if you can build team chemistry, like you know, I mean, but those are the things at the end of the day when it comes to it, if you're a veteran guy on the team, and you bring the intangibles of locker room chemistry as opposed to another guy who doesn't like who are you going to take who are you going to keep on the team, you know, so big, big fan of intangibles is my point there.

Yeah, and I don't think that's a bad thing at all as we bring David Harrison in here now, too, with Marshawn Latimore going to be released by the team David, I think, you know, look, we've talked about it a lot on this show it's it's not.

It shouldn't really be a surprise to anybody, but you know, what what I brought up before you jumped on here is that this tells me that you have a front office David that's willing to look at something they did.

Realize that it was a mistake and instead of dragging it out and forcing it and trying to make it work and trying to justify the trade.

They're going to cut bait they're going to move on they're going to go their separate ways and they're going to start over, which tells me you at least have people in the front office.

Specifically, Adam Peters that are going to be willing to move on quickly from situations that aren't working out as opposed to it being a lightning rod or spotlight of talking points and and drama may be around the team, depending on how far it goes.

They know they know the fan base was frustrated, they understood the situation and everybody's going to move on and look, they got a lot of things they have to address this off season, it saves them 18 and a half million dollars and caps.

But this was more than just the caps base to me, David, it was about the fact that they looked at this you're dealing with the injuries it wasn't working from the beginning and they said, you know what we're done we're going to move on from this and everybody goes their separate ways.

Yeah, I know 100% it's one of the things that I really liked about looking into Adam Peters when it came time.

You know to talk about who the Washington commanders my target for a GM back in the 2024 off season is his history with San Francisco 49ers, the 49ers are a team that traded up in the NFL draft to draft trade Lance as their future quarterback for their franchise.

And as soon as they realize this just wasn't going to pan out, they made the decision to go ahead, pull the plug and move on and if you can do that with the quarterback first round pick that you traded up to get.

Then you can do that with anybody and that's really just the not the most important thing, perhaps I suppose, but I think it really is up there on the list of important characteristics for a front office is being willing to be wrong and understanding that when you made a move for the right for the right reasons like I think that you know people judging the trade.

I think there is the decision and there is the outcome obviously the outcome is bad the outcome is not what you want.

And certainly that's a ding on Adam Peters record and you can have too many of those before people can start questioning or going to start questioning.

You know your viability is a long term general manager, I don't think one bad trade should start to bring that into question, but you know people are who the people are.

But you also have the decision and the decision was was great, the decision was the absolute right decision to make at the absolute right time.

Because I'll tell you right now if Washington commanders fans would have watched that 2024 commanders team go into the postseason and get thrown out of the wild card round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin and all these guys.

Because a manual Forbes and Benjamin St. Juice and Mikey sander so were your three cornerbacks instead of March on Latin more Mikey sander still and I don't remember who was playing.

Between the others, I think it was Benjamin St. Juice, whoever it was if that was the group and March on Latin more had gone somewhere else haven't helped us he goes to a team that ends up, you know, maybe goes to the Buccaneers and they ended up beating the commanders in the playoffs and everybody said, March on Latin more was right there, although March on would never would have gone to the Buccaneers, but March on Latin more was right there for the taking and Adam Peter sat on his hands and the decision has to be graded in the vacuum or the context that it was made in November of 2024.

The outcome certainly can be graded now at the end, but it should not change the lens, you see the decision because the decision was the absolute right decision to make during that time and I stand by that no matter what the result was now again, the results sucks so if you have too many more moves that work out like that then it's going to be a problem anyway.

And certainly I think the result outweighs the motivation to make the decision, but I've always stood by the fact that the worst thing you can do when you have a problem is make no decision just stand on your problem and sit there and hope the problem gets better on its own you got to take action and there was no all pro you know actively all pro caliber corner on the market when they trade for March on Latin more March on was the best option to make that secondary better when they could and so they did.

And I think that's the thing to always remember to is that not every trade is going to hit not every free agent signings going to hit not every draft pick is going to hit, but you got to have more that do than don't and that's the difference, especially early on when you're a team, your front office, your organization everything across the board, you have something to prove like this commander's organization has something to prove to the fan base to the media they and I know the deep down they do care they want to do the right

thing and they want to make this an organization that's winning they want to make it an organization that people respect they know the history they know what's gone on they know what the fan base what we've suffered through for so damn long watching this team and seeing them be a punchline time after time after time so that's what makes this off season so important that's what makes pick seven so important that's what makes free agency which is coming up on March 11 as we sit here on the final day of the chance to franchise tag and transition tags everybody and we're seeing the yes and the know from.

Various teams we move forward here there's going to be options for them this off season it's going to be something that they're going to have to work on and they're going to have to be able to make the right decisions even if not all of them are necessarily the right choices it's at least going to be in that moment you have to look at that and be able to say okay like this is a need we have a word to try to go through it and you can't just be going out and getting these one into your deals for veterans they're going to have to start showing their building a foundation for things moving forward all right speaking of foundations couple of guys resigned by the commanders are going to be part of this foundation moving forward on the other side

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Are we got David Harrison, Melissa Kim and Nick Ash, you Tyler, be honest, released by

the commanders.

Nick Allegra, he gets a two year deal.

Andrew Wiley resigns with a two year deal as well.

It's those two year deals again for the commanders as they, they, they love up.

The be honest, release was a little bit of a surprise.

I'd say for most people, maybe within the organization, there was some people knew

that it was coming, but you said something, Melissa, this is, you're mad about this.

You're not, you're not too happy about, about Tyler

being honest, getting released.

I was surprised.

I was like, damn, for the show, you said that.

I was like, okay, we need to hear why you're, well, no, I mean, full disclosure, Tyler

would be honest with someone that I had a relationship with before his time with the

commanders.

I actually covered him for his entire college career when I was covering the big 10 at

Wisconsin.

And always the thing I can say about him is consistent, right?

Like he was like consistent, reliable.

He was like that in college, too.

And I was surprised, honestly, that he got cut with one year left on his contract.

I mean, he started every game that he played in his two season look commanders.

He is someone that always spoke so highly of DQ.

I know that they had obviously a great relationship when DQ was with the Cowboys, too.

And I was just very surprised because I don't think that you can, again, I go back to my

original point about the price that you can put on the kinds of intangibles that some

guys bring to the locker room.

I think the oddest is one of them, like keeping that online steady and consistent with all

the changes, like, you know, the 20,000 changes that that online went through all last season.

And, you know, he's a veteran guy at this point, and, you know, I think that whatever locker

room he ends up in next, he will do just as good as great of a job in terms of being

that consistent leader, but like even look off the field, too, you know, he was a guy

that, like, you know, like a way from cameras did a lot for the community.

He did a lot of things for kids in terms of like toy drives and like, you know, things

are on the holidays and stuff, too.

And so I was just very surprised that, again, for an online that hasn't played a whole

lot of games, you know, there are a little line that doesn't have a lot of veteran, consistent

guys that you would cut calorie be oddish.

Yeah, I think I think everybody was surprised.

Andrew Wiley did his press conference, his Zoom press conference after resigning and

signing his new deal with the washmairs today.

And at the end of the, he was asked about, you know, Tyler being released and even, you

know, Andrew said it was, it was a shock.

It was a surprise.

Nobody really saw that coming.

He's, he's a great locker room guy, he's a great teammate.

He was solid on that offensive line.

I mean, was he the best center in the national football league?

No, but he was far and away, not the worst center in the national football league by a long

shot.

And I think people expected him to be around to play out that final year of his contract

and potentially work towards getting an extension.

It's simple.

It's simple.

It's it's curious because a lot of people are trying to, you know, pinpoint what exactly

happened.

I can tell you, you know, from my understanding, from talking to people in the building,

the injury is not worse than what was expected.

Like he hurt you had a knee and ankle injury there at the end of the season during the

Dallas Cowboys game.

He was left the building that night in a boot, got to talk to him at the end of the season.

He said that, you know, it could have been a lot worse than it was.

It wasn't going to need surgery and he was going to be able to continue on his career.

As far as I'm aware, nothing about that has changed.

So this wasn't an injury thing.

Then is it a cap thing?

You know, if it's an immediate release, then it's, you know, about a $2.5 million cap relief

in 2026, which is not the reason you cut your starting center.

If it's a post June 1st cut, then it's an $8 million relief in 2026, which is certainly

more significant, but you don't get that $8 million relief until June 1st, regardless.

However, obviously, I have impetus can play around with the numbers.

No, he's got $8 million more in cap space coming in June as well.

So it is, it is also functional right now.

Is that enough to warrant cutting your starting center?

I don't know that that is.

That's that's kind of like any starting center you, you sign is going to cost you at

least $8 million.

Right?

If not more, I mean, if it's Tyler Winderbond's going to cost you like $25 million a year

on average.

So you're going to pay basically the exact same amount as you're saving.

There's not a first round center like the highest center on most people's big boards is

like day two when they might go before you get to draft a 71.

So that's kind of an interesting predicament.

So it kind of comes down to Schemefit, Nick.

And the interesting thing about if it's not a Schemefit of David Blow said, hey, listen,

I need a little bit of a different style of center for my offense and it kind of shows

you while we all expect Ben Johnson type of offense.

It's not going to be necessarily exactly Ben Johnson's offense because as we speak, Tyler

Bionish is in Chicago, visiting with the Chicago Bears who need a new starting center.

So if Ben Johnson sees Tyler Bionish as a potential fit in his system, but David Blow, maybe

we don't have confirmation doesn't then again, it's not going to be the exact Ben Johnson

offense.

So it's very important to not necessarily go down the road of well, the Ben Johnson

offense you need this, even though that is the template we're using, it's not going

to be the exact same.

So that just makes the off season even more interesting, like you, Melissa, like anybody

who's got no Tyler, like there's not a single person on this planet that doesn't like

Tyler Bionish, you just can't.

So everybody wishes him the best on lest he plays for a team that plays against the commanders

in that weekend, everybody wishes him good health, but terrible game play.

And that's fair.

That's what you're supposed to do.

I'm looking at the list right now of some centers that are on the free agent market, Lloyd

Kushenberry from the Titans will be out there.

James Daniel also is like a garden tackle.

Yeah.

I mean, Conor McGovern, the bill center, you mean looking to age to here, he's 28, Tyler

Luna bomb is obviously the big one, he's going to be 26.

So I mean, there's, there are names out there and I would assume they probably had a plan

before they went out and did this.

And that's really the question is like, are you, are you drafting a center or are you

drafting sort of a swing offensive lineman that can play garden center that you look at

and maybe the mid rounds and then sign somebody in free agency and look to develop a younger

guard slash center and kind of see if they can turn into that, which would probably make

the most sense.

I don't know.

When you guys kind of look at where that situation is, I mean, does that, so that to me feels

like the plan.

I know this is literally like live on here, but it's not like this is a structured show.

Let's be real.

I'm just looking at all these names.

I think that that's what I'm doing.

If I'm the commander's Melissa's I'm looking at trying to get a veteran on the free agent

market that's maybe a two or three year deal, which clearly seems to be the deals they

want to give up, but also then drafting somebody else that you can develop moving forward.

You've got to kind of have that balance between both right of having the veterans that

can step in now, but we know they need depth.

We know that they need to be able to develop younger players because this team cannot get

older for the love of God, please don't get any older.

You need to get younger, but you got to have some guys that have experience there.

That would be the plan that I go with.

And that's where the lot of positions to is if you can get some veterans that can step

in now, but you're also looking to develop some younger players that are drafted that

may not be ready right away.

But you want to look at draft prospects that can either play center, play guard, play

both kind of look in that direction.

I think that from a biotic situation, situation specifically, that's where I would go and

let's be real Melissa.

There's no way that they went into this without having some semblance of a plan here

too.

I would hope not that you know that people who situations without a plan, which seems

to be a theme in life in general, however, you know, look, okay, for me personally, like

O-Line is the most important position on the field.

I do not care about whatever, O-Line to me has always been the most important position

on the field.

And for me, it always starts in the trenches, right, in terms of how successful your offense

is going to be.

And I think that over the course as this game has evolved over the last five, six, seven

years.

But it used to be that guys that could play every position on the offensive line or could

play guard or center, it used to be so rare, right?

Like, if you were a left tackle, you were always just going to be a left tackle.

You're never going to be a right tackle, you know, but I think as the game has evolved

on how as versatility has gone increasingly important, I think that even coming out of

college, a lot of offensive linemen can now, I'm not going to say can play every position

on the O-Line, but there are those, you know, those Patrick McCarrie's, those rare guys

out in the world.

And I think that guys have had to, by nature of this game, learn to play a little bit

more than just your one position.

Now, who is going to be the unicorn, though, that you can, that is A, available, B is

a veteran, enough of a veteran to have experience, to have that leadership to be able to command

the offensive line and C, like, wants to be in that kind of position, right?

Like, you know, if you are like a Morgan Moses or something like that and you have literally

only played right tackle your entire life, then this is really not the time if you're

a veteran to be like, oh, hey, I'm going to learn to, you know, play left tackle too,

you know?

And I bring him up because he has my most favorite quote that when he was on the Ravens,

also former Fred Skin as well, questions about him, I think maybe at the time, but he

said that O-Line is so specialized that it would be like trying to wipe your butt with

the other hand is the exact quote that I remember that line.

I actually do remember that it's a great line because like, there are guys really great

Kevin Zitler, one of the best bright guards I've ever covered in my career, but he was

like, I literally could never play less guard.

He's like, my brain is not wired that way, but then you again, find guys that can play

every position on the offensive line.

And I'm also curious about this again, I have to, I just bring up my time with the Ravens

just because like, that was the team that I had covered the most before I came to DC,

but I remember asking Patrick McCarrie, I'm like, how are you, I was like, explain to

me if it's so difficult for guys to play, you know, positions other than their own.

Explain to me how you go into a game when you play center, and then in the middle of

the game, you have to switch right guard.

Like how do you do this?

And he said for him, it's always just been visualization.

He's like, I picture myself on the line in the position about to play the game.

So that is how I can be so versatile.

But like, literally, that's like not that, I mean, not that common anymore, you know,

I mean, I don't think that there are a lot of guys out there that can play every position

on the online.

So again, I bring it back to the front office of the commanders to add up heaters.

There's going to be a unicorn out there, hopefully, that they can find.

And I guess I'm guessing that is in their plan because I think there, there are these

guys that can come right out of college and can play whatever they're asked on the online.

But I feel like that would be successful, but I feel like that is so, so rare just because

of the gap between the college game and like the pro game still, even though a lot of college

teams have been, you know, catching up.

But wherever that unicorn is, go find him.

Let's do it.

David.

You know, what's interesting is there's actually a connection.

You just mentioned Conor McGovern is one of those free agent centers, Nick, and he played

for the Dallas Cowboys and he played for two years of Dallas Cowboys while Dan Quinn

was also on the staff there.

And he played guard for the Dallas Cowboys before he went to the Buffalo Bills, he went to

the Buffalo Bills.

And I don't know if it's the entire story, but at least partially because he always felt

center was his more natural position and they gave him an opportunity to play center,

which is what he's been doing there.

And now that's why he's going in there as a free agency or as a free agent, the center

in Dallas, that kept him at guard, Tyler Biotis, so Tyler Biotis, so Conor McGovern goes

the Buffalo to play center.

Tyler Biotis becomes a free agent, follows Dan Quinn to Washington.

Now they're moving on.

Now Conor McGovern potentially reuniting with Dan Quinn in Washington to be the new center.

Potentially that could be a thing.

The other part of this equation is that guards actually paid more money and I actually recently

did an episode of Locked On Commanders where I just kind of went a little bit crazy.

I said on the show, we're going to get greedy on this episode.

And it wasn't so much to predict signings necessarily, but just kind of show people how

much flexibility the washman really have in cap space as far as how you structure deals

because as of right now, it marched on a lot of more on his way out.

I don't know if that deal has been processed or that release has been processed by the NFL

yet.

But once it is, like I said, $18.5 million cleared off the seller cap puts them over $80

million in cap space, depending on what the numbers are for cap hit, washer, and

juwily, nickella, gratties, deals, which not going to be large by any means, but call

it over $80 million to be safe.

Once the delay or meet tonsil deal gets done, you're talking about over $90 million in

cap space.

And oh, by the way, you've got the goose that can continue to lay the golden egg and

you're on pain.

If you need to free up, I don't know, $18 million, you can do so with a snap of a finger

and it's not really even that big of a deal.

So this washman's team has so much room to make moves.

You could actually give Tyler Lindervom his market setting deal, $25 plus million.

Like if you gave Tyler Lindervom a four year, $100 million contract, you could negotiate

that cap hit to where it only counts for about $12, 13 million this year against the actual

salary cap.

Then you could actually go out there and sell Conor and Gunner and listen, we know that

that centers your natural position, which you feel most natural at, but guards make more

money in the NFL.

So how about we give you about three to five million a year over your asking price to

move the guard instead of play center in Washington, reunite with DQ, play next to a pro

bull or like Laramie tonsil, play next to another pro bull or like Tyler Lindervom and maybe

you get yourself an all pro and a couple of other bonuses and some things like that.

And although also pizza bowlies really likes doing a sponsorship deal with commander.

So maybe we put in a good word for you to go out there and work with pizza bowlies.

Pizza bowlies not a sponsor of lots on commanders, though you should be.

So that one's for free, I guess.

But like there's a lot of discussion here and no, by the way, you do that, you could also

still go out there and sign Johan Jennings.

Then you could also still go out there and add maybe Isaiah likely and you could go after

Kobe Bryant as a safety for the Washington mayor's and you could account for the 12 to

14 million year in need for this draft class.

And all you're going to be left with Nick after that is about $25 million in cap space.

So the commanders can do a lot of things here in about five days, if they really want

to.

And and it will listen, what you laid out is I think an off season that would make people

very, very happy from that point.

You're feeling a lot of needs.

Granted, there's a lot of more needs that are still there.

But the way that you laid that out, here's the key is it, it's addressing important spots

on the offensive line and is protecting your quarterback.

And that's something too that has like as much as we talk about edge rusher and defense

and all of the needs that they certainly have there.

I know guards make more money, but centers are kind of that connection between the quarterback

and the offensive line and the chemistry between center and quarterback is really, really

important.

So this is something that that team is going to also have to get right.

And if if that's the offensive line, what you just laid out there, I think we should

feel very comfortable about the names that are across the border and not just that, but

the ages too.

Linderbombs, not even 26 yet, McGoverns 28 and you know, Laramie Tonsel, obviously, was

one of the best left tackles in the NFL.

So you're addressing some key needs there that'll really, really help them.

Like, I know that offensive line is not flashy.

It's not glamorous.

But we all know what happens when you don't have a great offensive line, ask the Bengals

who have not been able to figure it out.

They've tried at times.

They have tried to address it.

It still hasn't worked.

It's continued to be a problem.

Some of the injuries that Joe Burrow has had have been bad luck.

Some of them have been a lack of protection.

I mean, there's a lot of things there.

But man, you have got to be able to, especially now when you can address those needs and be

able to pay for it and have the money left over.

And the salary cap space is so important, but you've got to get those moves right.

Like, that's part of it is like, oh, it's great to have all this money.

Everything you laid out and have that 25 million left over, but you also got to get

these right.

And those are names and those are pieces right there that would address needs.

You would address it in a way that makes everybody happy.

You can maybe even overpay a little bit for those offensive lines.

You just mentioned in Linderbomb and Conor McGovern, but yet at the same time, they're still

happy and they're in a place where you have them here for a few years because this can't

just be now about this team doing things for the short term.

You've got to identify at least a few guys this off season that are going to be a part

of your foundation a little bit longer than two years.

You can't have the, it's okay to have veterans that are here for one or two years.

It's important.

You don't want to see them bring Bobby Wagner back for the right price and understanding

those very specific situations there.

I see you nodding, Melissa.

So you're clearly agree like, we need those veterans on this roster, but it can't just

be what the core foundation is.

It has to be about these are guys we see that are five, six, hopefully seven years maybe

even here in the organization at least, but yet at the same time, you've got some of

those pieces of the shorter term glue that's going to be there as well.

It just needs to be more of a balance this off season.

It can't just be let's just get guys out here, feel the team and then see where we go

from there, Melissa.

Yeah.

I think you bring up a good point again as we have already brought up the age discussion

here.

Like I think the best locker rooms, the best teams that are able to build that team chemistry

have that perfect fine line balance of guys who are veterans like season like almost 10

years in the league and then guys that are on the younger side like obviously rookies,

but then also maybe like two, three years in, you know, I think that that is like one

of the most perfect matches that you can have because you see the effects of what

a Bobby Wagner does for Jayden Daniels, you see the effects of what an OBJ did for

Jay flowers, you see the effects of what not just it's not just about like playing well

in the field.

I mean, it's about like when you come right out of college, like how to handle all this

money that you all of a sudden have in your hand, like be how to take care of your body,

like see, like, you know, getting like, what are they called, like a recovery massage therapy,

like I mean, your nutrition, your hydration, just how to live, where to live, like, you

know, what I mean, like what's the best way to get to the stadium on game days, you

know, it's just those little like nuanced things that you don't necessarily that doesn't

come in the guidebook of how to play in the NFL, it's not in the, you know, the presentations

that they give you on day one when you enter the league.

Those are the things that you really only learn by being in the league and having played

in the league.

And I think that those are the intangible things that those guys that are good leaders

in the locker room bring to a great team and that in turn builds team chemistry because

that builds trust between the older guys and the younger guys and, you know, because

I'm sure when you're a younger guy, you're all you want to do is prove yourself.

All you want to do is get some approval from some of these guys and respect that from

some of these guys that have been in the locker room for eight, nine, ten years.

So I think that that balance, that fine balance is so important when it comes to team chemistry

because at the end of the day, that's the guy that you're going to run a little faster

for.

That's the guy that you're going to take a block for on the field at the end of the day,

David.

Yeah, 100%.

I think something to keep in mind here, and it's actually funny time because I'm literally

going to do this for my next episode of Lockdown Commanders as we kind of reset the

depth chart to start looking ahead towards next Monday when the opening, go shading window

or a period that really opens and start looking at some of these vacancies that you got here

is you should be mentally Nick Alagredi in as a center, right?

So Nick Alagredi obviously has played guard.

That's where he kind of got his most, you know, famous moment playing with the torn UCL

and the Super Bowl at left guard for the Kansas City Chiefs and all those things.

And that's great.

And no, me wrong.

It's a dope story.

But I cannot possibly describe to you enough how excited Nick Alagredi was to get the

opportunity to play center last year at the end of the season.

Of course, he's not happy that Tyler got hurt, but stepping in for Tyler Biotis at center

when he did get injured against the Dallas Cowboys and then getting to start and play the whole

game against the Philadelphia Eagles, like you to thought Nick Alagredi, I don't even know

what just got like the biggest stuffed animal out of the claw machine at Chuck E. Cheese

when he was in the sixth birthday party or whatever it was like.

This dude was just through the roof.

And then today, Andrew Wiley, I do, I'm writing a story, a little bit behind the veil.

I'm writing a story for WSA 9 on kind of the buddies that Nick Alagredi and Andrew Wiley

are and then being able to sign two year deals in the same off season.

Listen, it is out of coincidence that both these dudes signed deals for the same amount

of time.

Okay.

Like these guys are attached at the hip and Andrew kind of paused a little bit, but then

he kind of said, you know, to be able to one find the best friend in this week is not

really the easiest thing to do, but then also be able to play with them to play together

with the chiefs.

Now they're playing together here in Washington sticking together, things like that.

But something he said about Nick, or Nicky, as he calls him, I don't call him Nicky because

I do is huge.

But Andrew calls him Nicky.

And I'm paraphrasing here, but says for him to be able to play the position, I know he

wants to play so much is huge.

I think Nick Alagredi is the center for this version of the Washington, I think for David

Blow's offense, Nick Alagredi is a center.

Now, do you lock him in as a starting center?

Personally, I don't.

I think that if there's needs to be competition there at a minimum, however, I will tell

you this, Adam Peters is not one to be known to get into like bidding wars.

John Lynch is also not one to be known to get into bidding wars.

The number of Broncos, the New England Patriots all have reputations for not getting into

bidding wars.

And this is the Adam Peters lineage he's come from.

If Linda bomb goes over 30 million a year, which would be insane, that would be amazing.

I don't think AP goes that deep.

If my govern goes towards 25 million a year, I don't know that AP goes that deep.

There are there are three or four guys that are projected right now to be available right

around pick 65 to 75 in the NFL draft that all have guard center versatility or are just

strictly centers, but they look like pretty decent solid centers.

I think a lot of fans will be very upset.

Nick, if we go through all of free agency and Nick Alagredi is your only center on the

roster.

But come day two of the NFL draft, like the thing about rosters, however, is if you're

another GM and you're looking at these guys, you look at the wash manager like, dude,

they got to jump at one of these interior office alignment.

Now you're talking about maybe Adam Peters has to trade up from like 71 to 65 or something

like that to make a move here on like a Jake slaughter at a Florida, for example, I'm

not like giving that my own stamp of whatever, but just throwing a name out there.

That's the battle you have to run into.

So I do think the wash commanders are going to want to add a center here, but don't necessarily

be surprised.

If it's not one of those top two guys, I don't think it's going to be Kushnberry, not

impressed.

And I hope it's not him because I don't know how to tell you all to get excited about

what Kushnberry.

If he comes over here watching, but don't be surprised if they open the door here where

Nick Alagredi.

Remember, he's been on the team for a little while.

David loud knows him.

He's a veteran in the locker.

Highly respected.

I know he wouldn't be the fireworks decision that a lot of people want.

But this offensive line by and large is kind of set like between Laramie, Tonsel, Brandon

Coleman.

I think Nick Alagredi, Sam Cosme, Tim McKay, someone they really liked last year.

He was injured through the draft process, so didn't get a lot of buzz.

But he's someone they really like Josh Connelly, Junior Andrew Wilde.

Yes, seven dudes that I look at and say they're probably going to make the 53.

Usually you get nine to 10 alignment.

Julian Good Jones has been on this roster for a while now for a reason.

So if you put him up there, that's eight guys that you could potentially see on the 53.

They only have room for one to three, depending on where they see Julian Good Jones.

To really make this roster.

So could they go, you know, pedal to the metal and and sign two top end free agents.

Absolutely.

But don't be surprised.

It's like one big time free agent, like maybe either or Linda bomb or my govern.

And then maybe they do turn to the draft to let these guys battle it out because don't

forget.

There's also guys like Trent Scott out there who love the organization.

Probably you're not going to be highly sought after as free agents that might be able

to get brought back in that second wave of free agency as well.

Yeah, I think it's the offensive line is not near the top of the depth chart of places

that they need to spend a significant amount of money.

But that doesn't mean that if you can't up, if you have an opportunity to upgrade that

you don't obviously consider it and there's everything we've laid out here means that there's

a chance at least maybe it's center and it shifts some other things because you do want

to protect Jane Daniels.

You got to invest in what your quarterback is in his development this year.

There are a lot of other spots that they're going to have to address.

We know edge Russia is a big one and we know now to certain guys that aren't getting tagged

in the franchise tag deadline spot that we're in right now is we're doing this live.

And that's about to be done.

Of course, if you're listening or watching this afterwards, you're going to know all

the final stories there.

Some names that could be on the market for the commanders in other spots, plus is there

a potential for some serious draft chaos right around that seventh spot for the commanders.

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All right, so we've got David Harrison.

We've got Melissa Kim Nick as you as we get set here for the final stretch of franchise

tag and transition tags and all those one good thing is we don't have to talk about

Kurt Cousins and his franchise tag.

Remember those days?

Those weren't fun.

I remember those and it was exhausting to say the least did see Daniel Jones got a transition

tag.

Not that the commanders were looking for a anybody in that at the quarterback position.

I think that was felt like that was a spot for him to certainly be.

Trey Hendrickson's interesting though and we've talked about him a lot on the show and

the reason why I throw this name out there is because he will be a free agent.

It was kind of expected, but now it is going to be official.

He obviously fits a position and need for the commanders.

He also made $29 million last year and we know he's going to want more money and hasn't

gotten a deal that he's really been happy with with Cincinnati at all.

It's been nothing but a contract battle for years with them and he's 31 and he's coming

off of a down year yet at the same time there is a need there.

He's not the only guy that's certainly going to be in the conversation including some

potential trades with other edge rushers that are out there.

But David, when I look at where we're kind of shaping up the overall free agent market

to be, what you laid out before in terms of what they can do with a bunch of different

positions, that 25 million still allows you to maybe go get yourself at least one edge

rusher.

They can make a difference in free agency while drafting while I mean, there's a lot

of wiggle room in a chance for them to even clear more cap space.

But the reality is here, it's great that they've got all this cap space, but we just

spent an entire segment talking about the offensive line and where that might cost them

a little bit more if they want to upgrade that.

That's without even addressing so much of what needs to happen defensively.

Yeah.

You know, the more the more we get into this and obviously for agency and next week is

going to tell us a lot about this, the more I'm getting the vibe, I guess, is the

best way to put this up.

This team might go very heavy offensively in for agency and then go very heavy defensively

in the NFL draft.

Because I mean, there's no free agents in on the defensive side of things, but I wouldn't

be surprised if it's like a corner in free agency and that's defensibly and then everything

else comes offensively and then in the NFL draft, you end up seeing like a linebacker

and a safety and a detackle and an edge and all this other stuff.

I don't know because again, GM hates being pigeonholed so like, that doesn't mean I'm not

talking like just no signs of talking about like top end signings, right?

Devon Lloyd is a huge name out there in the linebacker market.

I don't know that the commanders go top shelf corner, which top shelf corner in this class

is like Jamel Dean, which most bucks fans will tell you Jamel Dean's not a top shelf

corner.

So like just it's in relation to the draft for the free agency class, right?

Not total NFL caliber type of coverage and then or like to reap woolen.

I would love to reap woolen personally, but I don't think you're going to get like

to reap woolen and Devon Lloyd, right?

I think you're going to get like to reap woolen and then maybe like Eric Wilson from Minnesota

Vikings at linebacker or you get Devon Lloyd and then I don't even know if it's not my

like they bring back Johns and Jones and then maybe bring in, you know, Jeff Okuda from

the Vikings or something like that.

Like I just don't think you're eating necessarily too premium defensive reagents anyway.

Trey Hendrickson is interesting.

My issue with Trey, my question I shouldn't say, not an issue is this, he played seven games

last year due to injury.

He's obviously really, really old, even though he's over a decade younger than me.

So that makes me feel good.

And he's obviously got this assignment reputation, just is what it is like he wants his money.

He definitely seems like he wants to be paid a little bit for what he's done, not what

he's going to do.

And we've already seen Adam Peters deal the situation where a guy wanted to be paid a

little bit for what he's already done versus only what he's going to do.

And that doesn't sit well with AP.

So Trey is looking to be paid by somebody else for being this great dude and Cincinnati

for all these years.

Like I don't know that he's going to go find that deal anywhere, but I don't think he's

going to find it from Adam Peters.

He got the injury situation, he got the age situation.

I just like the Trey Hendrix in name factor, obviously got it.

And when he's healthy, the talent is obviously there.

He's always been a run game, a little bit suspect in the run game.

You kind of already have that guy to a lesser extent in Doran's Armstrong.

But if you're looking, if you're telling me that going into April, your edge class, your

edge group is Doran's Armstrong coming off of an ACL, Javante Jean-Baptiste coming off

of the season ending injury, Trey Hendrix and coming off of the season ending injury

after playing seven games.

And maybe Javant Kinlaw moving out to be a big end, which is an indication I got from

Dan Quinn last week.

Cool.

You better be drafting some edges.

You know what I mean?

Like that's, it just, it doesn't get the motor going.

I think Trey is about to meet a very rude, free agent pool.

I think he might be hoping for one thing and he's about to find another thing.

The question is going to be how quickly does he get humbled or is there someone who, I don't

say dumb because that sounds insulting, but for a lack of a better phrase is dumb enough

to give him that caliber of money, even though he's probably not going to do that guy anymore.

You know, if Trey is willing to take a lot of incentive, not a lot of guarantees and

okay, and that's where it comes, it becomes important.

It's like how much is, you know, how much is the total value versus how much is the guaranteed

value?

All these things.

But personally, I was kind of hoping the Bengals would try to tag and trade them because

I don't think hadn't beaters would have got into that.

And I kind of don't want the commanders to be in on the Trey Hendrix in situation.

Again, if they go after him, you know, there's medical information they have that I don't

have that we don't have things like that.

And I will have to have faith that Adam beaters and that staff look at him and say you're

going to be healthy.

We hope you'll be healthy because just bringing in another edge dealing with the season

and the injury just doesn't move the needle for me.

Yeah, we've seen that story before, I think, but really quickly on Trey Hendrix.

And I mean, what a difference a year makes, right?

Because he was one of the guys last year that had the contract dispute, you know, and

dragged it out and sat out and sat out.

Melissa, it's not like it's been like five years in a row with that, too, you know, it's

just like Trey Hendrix and it's just like every year, there's a lot of content in the

Bengals.

I mean, look, I think he had a lot of, he, no disrespect, obviously, but he is someone

that obviously is going a little bit off of the name recognition, obviously, four straight

probals.

He has, he has put up the numbers and the money where it's worth, I think, in his time

with the Bengals, you know what I mean?

I think that, that is a big thing for him.

And obviously, if I were him, I would want to rest my laurels a little bit on him as well.

Oh, definitely.

Oh, wait.

Yes, I can, I can vouch for it.

I can vouch for that name very much.

Yeah.

Gerald and the YouTube comments saying that and I would absolutely go that right now, younger

which helps too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Again, I can speak very highly of him because he is someone who I've gotten to know

very, very well over the course of the years.

He was a working on the Ravens, the same year that I started with the broadcast team there.

And to watch him grow the way that he did and to not get frustrated, right?

Because I think his senior year at Penn State, he didn't put up the numbers in terms of

sack numbers.

And, you know, a lot of people were like kind of poo-pooing like, you know, the, the

draft pick for him being drafted as highly as he was.

But I think that he is a guy that shuts up puts his head down and does the work, no matter

what is going on.

And he is able to do that because he is so mentally sound, doesn't read the headlines, isn't

on social media is like so disciplined and like, so, and he told me a lot, it's because

he comes, his family's Nigerian, his parents actually, he is family and Nigeria still.

And, you know, he was very well disciplined from a young age in terms of what, what his

job was.

And I think for him in the last couple of years, he obviously wasn't successful in Zach

Orr's defensive scheme.

I don't think it really worked that well for him, but, you know, he's, you know, gets

traded through the chargers and is all of a sudden a beast again, the guy that we love

to do and is, I think, first couple of years with the Ravens.

So I think that it has to be the right fit for him, I think.

And not necessarily sure, obviously, for a first year, if it's a quarter, I know what's

going to bring.

But I would 100% take, oh, Daffy, oh, hey, oh, we're Kray Hendrickson and again, Kray Hendrickson

is someone I familiar with as well, having been in the AFC North for four years.

But like, I think that he is a good locker room guy.

I can absolutely vouch for Daffy, oh, wait, in that sense.

And the thing I love about him too, one last thing I'll say about him.

And then I'll move on from him.

But when David O'Jabbo was drafted from Michigan, he obviously struggled with the team.

He was an experiment.

He was one of those guys that when I was making my previous point about how you can have

a bazillion statistical things in your corner.

But if you cannot produce and fit into the situation that you're in, you are not going

to be successful in the NFL.

So when I think it was O'Jabbo's second year, and O'Jabbo's third year on the team, and

they were kind of, you know, on opposite ends, right, of the field.

But what they would do with each other, what O'Jabbo would do is that he would watch film

O'Jabbo and be like, hey, like, how'd you do that?

How'd you do that move?

Like, I mean, and they would text each other constantly, watching each other's film, balancing

ideas off of each other in terms of technique and scheme and how to get better.

And I think that I'm sure I know a lot of guys probably do that, but what his dedication

to that in terms of getting better and helping the other guy, helping O'Jabbo get better

for me, made him an excellent locker room guy.

So I, I will vouch for that man 100% all right.

We have some breaking NFL news that's going to settle one position that the commanders

may not be interested in.

But it's still some big breaking news, and when it comes to that picket number seven,

could there now be more and more of an opportunity for a little bit of chaos and maybe some trades

right around where the commanders are picking that's coming up as well here on commander squad.

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All right, no, this does not affect the commanders, but this just broke a couple of minutes to go.

David Harrison, Melissa Kim, Nick Ashu, the Cardinals have informed Kyler Murray.

They are going to release him the first day of the league year, barring a trade between

now and then Arizona owes him $36.8 million in guaranteed money.

And another 19.5 would have triggered on March 15th, 2027.

So he's now going to be moving on.

I know the commanders have no need for quarterback.

They have no need for him to be a backup.

None of this works with the commanders, but this is that time of year where there's a lot

of movement.

It's moving parts, which can dictate so many other things and have a trickle down effect.

But I will say this, Melissa, it's felt rocky for a while with Kyler Murray.

And now when you bring in a new head coach and a fresh start, a lot of times it's just,

I got no emotional connection to this guy like we talked about at the beginning of the

show, right?

So sometimes it just becomes a let's just break free.

Let's start fresh.

Kyler Murray is going to have a new home somewhere in 2026.

Yeah, it's been a roller coaster ride for him in Arizona.

I think that's the best way that you can describe it.

There have been some great moments, right?

Great moments of success, I think, but I think when you walk away from the outside looking

in, it wasn't a place where he was, where he was going to spend the rest of his career,

I think.

I think you could kind of see the riding was on the wall, especially when you have a change

over in management.

I'm interested to see where he's going to land, you know?

I think there are some options for sure in terms of where he fits in.

I'm curious to see, but he actually, wow, that was fast.

He just posted about a two on Twitter.

Wasted no time.

By the way, you all need to stop in the comments about Jayden's backup.

You know, damn well, that's not happening.

Yeah, the YouTube comments with this being a being Jayden's backup.

That's the last thing you want in any way.

And I don't think Kyler Murray wants to be a backup.

Like, you know, I mean, like, no, no, and I know, like, you know, they're probably buds

and whatever.

And so that, but no, no, no, no, no, I don't think that he's going to be a backup

anywhere.

Yeah, I'm curious to see what he is going to accomplish.

I mean, you know, he said, like, no stranger to adversity, he wanted nothing more than

to be the one to end the 77 year drought for this organization.

I am sorry.

I failed us.

That makes that breaks my heart.

And a reminder that these guys, like, it is a business, yes, but obviously these guys

are convinced as well.

Dan.

Yeah.

So Odefeo Bay is someone that I would love to see come to the Washington commanders.

Like you said, Melissa, I'm not talking about Kyler Murray.

I'm sorry.

You mentioned Baltimore Ravens.

I remember going to Baltimore for joint practices, a couple of years and talking to Ravens

reporters, talking to some of the people on the staff even and talking to Ravens players.

Like Odefeo Bay is something that everybody loved there.

I think the fit would be, would be really strong for him with Dorontay Jones's defense.

And in fact, when you just, just pile on to the tray of Hendrix and conversation, when

you look at some of the available targets to me, Odefeo Bay, OA, you had to turn 28.

Quiddy pay is young.

I don't think Quiddy pay is really a fit for Dorontay Jones had career low numbers and

pressures and sacks under Luana rumo and the Indianapolis Colts last year.

So even though the two years before that, he had eight sacks last year, which Luana

rumo is going to run a system more similar to what Dorontay Jones is going to run.

I don't think the Quiddy pay is necessarily a fit there.

But boy, I'm off a free agent who hasn't turned 28 yet, just coming from the Seattle Seahawks.

Even Malcolm Coons, who is going to be 28 before the next season begins, has battles

on injuries.

I was been the opposite guy, opposite of Max Crosby.

I think Malcolm Coons has some juice in them that a coach like Dorontay Jones might

be able to tap into.

I mean, Joseph O'Sci, Arnold and McKetty, like Caleb on Chase on even though he's kind

of a one hit wonder.

I don't really like to buy into one hit wonders.

There's just a lot of options out there that have higher upside, longer upside and are

younger and are going to cost you less and give you the opportunity to double depth.

If you go out there and sign Trey Hendrix and like, you're locked into this dude.

If you try to sign Odefeo away, like you might be locked into him, you know what I mean?

So to speak, but you have more reason to be confident that you can be locked in him

for two or three years.

And then you also have the possibility of Minnesota Vikings at Jonathan Grinard coming up

of today.

The reports are the Vikings are open to trading him now looking at the projections and this

is just a little bit of a peak for my next episode locked on commanders is I'm doing research

on Grinard because of this whole thing.

But, you know, he's a little bit older than O.A. and not much, but the situation there

is he is he's also coming off of an injury himself, a little bit of a down year in production

playing in the system that, you know, Dorontay Jones is coming out of.

So obviously there's a little bit of concern there, but the potential is certainly there,

right?

The potential upside is certainly there.

And right now the projection is like a day to draft fix.

So you're talking like low end second round, early third round, the commanders have that

number 71 overall pick.

I don't think anybody wants to see out on Peter's trade that pick, even for a veteran who knows

the system, but I wonder, I wonder if because the Minnesota Vikings can earn $12 million

in cap space by trading him before June 1st flat out, they can get almost 30, I say it's

like $25 million in cap space.

If the Washington commanders take all of his money, like we just talked about, they've got

plenty of room to take on contracts.

If they take on the rest of Grinard's contract, maybe run a situation where Adam Peters sends

a fifth round pick to the Vikings for John the Grinard and a sixth and take all the money,

like maybe they can work something like that out.

I think I would be okay with that more than the commanders just giving up the third round

pick.

The problem is again, just like everything else, like if I don't know, say the cults

come calling, they're like, hey, we'll give you a late day too.

You give us back a fourth, or we'll give you a late second, you give us back a fourth.

The Vikings might go ahead and take that deal, but it'll be interesting, but I think that

there's a lot of options.

I mean, we just routed off like five people that I would put ahead of Trayon Hendrickson.

So, you know, I think it handles that.

By the way, I'm going to throw this right back at you, David, since Andrew is not coming

to Washington.

No, Anthony Armstrong who could not make the show, but is still

commenting in YouTube, Kyler Murray to the Rams with cliff.

There you go.

There's, there's that.

Kyler needs to talk about it, David, but Anthony, you couldn't even make the show.

Kyler can go anywhere.

We'll swoop in Arizona.

I'll be happy for us.

You know what?

Kyler Murray to the DC.

All right.

So we.

So there we go.

So we know, David, not a fan of Kyler Murray, which is good because it's, I think we're

actually all on the same page with that one.

It comes to him.

I actually come here.

Anthony did send this to us in our group tax.

Do even though we couldn't be on the show today.

I do want to throw this out there.

The athletic is mentioning, you know, edge rushers and running back and quarterback are

going to be sort of a somewhat consensus for a lot of teams in terms of the big boards.

Everybody will have the receivers rated differently.

The corners are different a bit of a, and a little bit of a mess.

Six through 40 is going to be a crapshoot.

You could have a guy at 40 getting picked seventh, but again, someone has to be picked.

So a very interesting scenario, potentially, where the commanders are sitting at number

seven right now, where, you know, I mean, we've had some really

monster workouts of the combine, which certainly makes people get very excited when you're

watching somebody like, you know, David Bailey run of four, five, one, 40.

And I'd love to see him fall to the commanders, but maybe there's a chance or he goes number

two to the jets or four to the Titans or somewhere along those spots, Melissa.

But I do know this.

I would not be surprised if we have a very chaotic drafted.

In some ways, if the commanders have an opportunity to get guys it, I don't know, 12, 13, 14,

let's say, depending on how it shapes out, trading back, get yourself an extra pick.

I would absolutely take that for a team that needs to get younger.

It has a lot of needs to fill.

Yeah.

In terms of some of the mocks I've looked at and stuff too, like once you get like past

like five, it's kind of like 52 car pickup, like it's a whole new world, you know?

So I think that they will, listen, all the ones I've seen so far, they're going to pick

defensively, right?

Like corners, adressors, linebackers, that's generally been the consensus.

I would not be opposed, obviously, to getting some more, just kind of the point that you

made Nick, as we have talked about age a lot on the show today, but I'm not opposed to

that.

The thing is it's like, again, get the best of it.

I said this last week too, get the best available for what you need for what's there at the

moment and kind of move on, you know what I mean?

But again, I go back to, you'll never know what you're going to get, right, with some

of these guys.

So I think that once you get them in, work with them, see what happens.

Again, I don't, I'm in the minority in this business and this where like, I'm not like,

oh my god, you need to be a number of ball bod to get this guy and whatever, it'll work

out the way it's supposed to.

You know what I mean?

In terms of how they come in fit in and how you see these rookies adjust to the NFL

life.

I guess that's the more pragmatic approach this day, but I'm not really sure.

But I'm just kind of like, okay, let the chips fall where they may and work with what

you got.

You know, that's kind of my thought.

Yeah, I think it's a new style as a man sort of lane.

That's like for me right now, I'm kind of just kind of set.

I think David Bailey is going to go too soon.

I don't think there's another edge that's we're taking at seven.

I don't hate necessarily the idea.

I saw something we flowed out.

They might go receiver if Cardinal Tate is there.

I don't hate him opposite of Terry McClure and then, you know, bringing in Brandon, I

you kind of allows them to run those three guys kind of fluid and you never know where

each one's going to line up on a down to down basis.

So I don't necessarily hate that idea either, but outside of that of his defense, I think,

you know, you also out there and signed to reek Wolland and then you drafts sunny styles.

You go out there and signed Devon Lloyd and you go out there and draft man sort of lane.

I know that there's some conflict, quote unquote at the top of the corner, back room.

Look, I don't talk to everybody at the scouting combine and I was on there for one day, but

everybody I talked about the corner, back room.

There is no conflict.

It's man sort of lane and it's everybody else now, you know, that number two guy is kind

of closed, only me wrong, but not so close that a man sort of lane were to take a diversion

during the route to the finish line.

He's still going to finish first and not 12th, unlike some people, which I don't know why

I'm talking trash to marathon runners.

I can't run a mile right now.

But if you know the story about the marathon, then you get it.

If you don't, you don't, but it's okay.

I think once man sort of lane works out at his pro day, I don't think there's going

to be any question that man sort of lane is the number one corner in this group grew

up a Ravens fan went to high school in Severeign, Maryland.

So I'm going to sit here and say, bring him home, even though, you know, different team,

but same region, same area, right, so he can go to Ravens games on the by-week during

the by-week.

He can do those kinds of things, but yeah, I mean, it's for me, Caleb Downs, I love him

by, I think, seven is too high for a safety.

I don't, and you know, the ACL garbage, whatever that has nothing to do with it.

I just think seven is too high for a safety because safeties are so dependent on everything

happening in front of them.

Like, I don't care how good your safety is.

You saw it with Kyle Hamilton in the Baltimore Ravens.

He's great, but if there's no pass rush, if there's no mid-level defense, your great safety

is still going to be on a really bad defense and you're not going to make the playoffs.

So some of these styles can make a difference.

Man sort of lane can make a difference.

Go out there, get a couple of those edges we talk about, bring Odefeo way back to the

East Coast.

Maybe you'll get Malcolm Coons.

Look at a third round guy to draft a ad in the mix as well.

Get Doran's Armstrong healthy.

Do everything that I say and you will win the Super Bowl in February.

And there we go.

We've built an entire roster for the commanders.

The offseason's done.

Just follow that blueprint and from the commander squad and the entire show we've done.

And that's it.

By the way, Anthony, good luck.

I know you're still at the dentist with your kids there as he's watching us still at

the dentist.

I mean, it's just, I think you should have done the show from there.

We just hear.

I was in the background the whole time.

It's, you know, it'll help distract people from that.

So, all right.

Well, of course, we will continue as the offseason continues and the draft.

And remember, it's lying season.

So we're going to try to sift our way and swim through the muck of all the lies that

we're going to get leading up to free agency and trades and the NFL draft a lot, a lot

ahead.

And don't forget also not just subscribing to commander squad, but the lockdown commanders

podcast.

We've got, of course, the YouTube channel there and locked on commanders as a whole, all

the stuff, all the things, follow us on socials, everything, Anthony, good luck at the

dentist.

It's been a really long time there.

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