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Cheg O'Conquo knit cross the two Washington Commanders players added in free agency on

Wednesday, day three of NFL free agency.

And after day two, I think a lot of people were wondering what would Adam Peters have

up his sleeves.

And it all started off, actually, even before we got our morning episode of Locked On Commanders

out, it started off with Caleb on Chase on a player that we talked about last night's

or Tuesday night after the signing of a Dauphin Oway, perhaps the Washington Commanders

going back to the edge group and Caleb on Chase on's name came up, Trey Hendrixson

getting signed to the Baltimore Ravens and a whole other mess that fortunately the Washington

Commanders are not part of.

And after that move, or really subsequently at the same time as that move, Caleb on Chase

on's name, also being dropped.

And it wasn't very much longer in the day that we had a wait to get Cheg O'Conquo announced.

And then right after that, Nick Cross also getting announced two Maryland guys coming back

to the DMV.

So who are these players?

And obviously, we'll have time to dive deeper into each of them and every day or club,

all access members will be getting film studies of both of these guys as well as we get

into the future.

But with David Blau taken over as the offensive coordinator of the Washington Commanders,

the offense is expected to shift towards more of a Ben Johnson type of offense, which

certainly likes explosive plays, but it also likes to run out of heavy sets.

You're talking two tight ends as part of that NFL evolution really, NFL has really turned

to more 12 personnel, two tight end type of sets, but it's not just being big and it's

not just short yards.

It's an explosive, heavy type of hybrid type of offense and in that scheme, the tight end

isn't looked at as a secondary player as a guy who just the quarterback might be able

to lean on.

He's looked at as a primary player in that scheme.

And so what you need there is two types of tight ends and we've talked about this all

throughout the off season.

You need a wide tight end, someone who can be in line block, but also has acceptable receiving

ability.

But do you also need a move tight and also known as an F tight end?

And that is where the Sam LaPorta type of tight end comes in, Dalton, Kin, Kay type

of tight end and Buffalo and the Chicago Bears, they just drafted another one of some

reason.

Every time I go to say his name, I can't think of his name, but when I'm thinking

about him outside of a broadcast, I can say his name.

Anyway, young tight end in Chicago, you certainly want him to have the ability to block a little

bit too.

You don't want him to just necessarily be a receiver, Isaiah, likely is another type of

those guys.

And also one of those types of guys and out of the Tennessee Titans program, he's someone

that isn't just a vertical threat, not someone who's just a receiver, but he's also got

some size to him, be able to kind of box some people out and be able to do some of these

things.

You can imagine him running some deep over route, some seamstructures, things like that

that we've seen in the Ben Johnson offense.

And what that's going to do is it's going to stress the linebackers.

It's going to stress the safety and it's going to prevent some of those double teams

against Terry McClure. And if he is in Steve staying out at the exposition, of course,

we'll have to kind of see where that goes.

I mean, he's going to play that exposition far outside wide position.

Anyway, at some point in time, but you know, even if he gets more into the slot, having

that tight end who can stretch the defense, stress the defense, even more importantly,

intermediately.

And in the middle of the field, incredibly important with four, five, two speed.

Chick is that type of tight end who cannot just come into the room, but he can further weaponize

the room.

And like I said, unlock other players like Terry McClure and where guys like Zach, it's

really good at finding those zones, finding leverage, all those things, but not able to

really threaten the defense down field enough to keep those guys honest.

And that is where I think David blouse, I'm going to try to take a step in here, figure

out where Jane Danes likes to throw the ball.

We know he likes to throw the ball deep.

Intermediate part of the field has been a little bit trickier, but you get a bigger,

longer type of target here to really help him out there.

Chick has never missed a game in his NFL career, proving that he's very reliable.

The number one ability availability, not a problem for Chick of Conquo.

So you love obviously that feature as well, especially joining a team that was as injured

as the Washington Commanders were last year.

But not only does he help out David blouse offense, not only is he going to help out Jane

Danes, but he's going to help give Dan Quinn the team that he's been wanting this entire

time.

And we saw a certainly more explosiveness, more explosivability out of the offense in

2024.

That kind of went away in 2025.

And when you look at Chick, his yards after catch, very impressive as ability, like I said,

to get down the field, attack the scene, do all these things very, very impressive.

You're going to see plays in our film study again, every day or club, all access members.

You're going to see plays in the film study, where he turns a five yard hitch into a 20 yard

game.

And that's the type of thing.

Those are the easy yards.

We'll go back to when Jane Danes made a joke last year about, you know, throwing a pass

behind the line of skirmish to Debo Samuel and watching him take off for 70 yards.

Unfortunately, that never really came to fruition with Chig.

You get another opportunity to do some of those types of things and it's going to allow

Jayden to have some quick options.

So if you face a defense that's maybe getting home a little bit quicker, David Block can

adjust, get the ball out quicker to a guy like Chig, but he can do some damage with it.

Again, we talked about that 12 personnel.

This does not bury Ben Senate.

I think that's a very important part of this conversation.

We've been having this conversation.

So every day, as you already know, this, this is not an anti-Ben Senate move as far as

I project.

And again, this is all projections because I haven't seen David Blow's offense.

But this is not a Ben Senate burial.

What this is actually it's a Ben Senate unlocking ability because now you can have 12 personnel.

If you come up with them against a defense that doesn't have the edge presence, doesn't

have the strength, doesn't have the ability to really kind of bully your edge.

You can put Chig and Ben Senate both out there as tight ends, put them in 12 personnel.

And the fact that neither of them is exactly the John Bates of the blocking world doesn't

really matter.

You can have the ability to attack them anyway.

You can also put John Bates, obviously, in there is that inline white tight end for your

system.

And Ben Senate now can be an H back full back type of tail back type of dude.

Get that Kyle use check out of him that we heard Adam Peters say he had in him in the

first place.

So it really just gives David Blow another element to his offense to potentially further

unlock Ben Senate.

And let's be honest, if it doesn't further unlock Ben Senate and Chio Conco comes in and

does what he does for Washington, what he did in Tennessee, and Tennessee was their

lead receiver, right?

If he can come in and produce like that and Ben Senate turns out to not be able to be

unlocked by David Blow and not take another step forward.

Is he likely with the team in 2027?

I mean, probably not.

He possibly won't even be with the team by the entry camp in 2026 the way we've seen

Adam Peters move.

And would that be a black mark on the Adam Peters roster?

Certainly we have that conversation when the time comes because I'm beyond with you right

now.

It's not all on Adam Peters, although there are some things that I think Adam Peters

should have seen coming as well in that conversation.

But let's cross that bridge if we get there.

Hopefully we don't.

And it just further, like I said, unlocks the tight end position.

But either way, your floor is definitely raised and raised by a young tight end that if

it works out because obviously we don't know if it's going to or not could potentially

be around with Jade and for years to come.

Then of course you have the Maryland Terrapin saying, right, he's not from Maryland.

He is actually from Georgia, but Maryland Terrapin, you love bringing him back to the

DMV to get that then going.

He knows the area.

He knows the region.

He knows what this means.

$8 million annual average value was a great contract.

Some other tight ends out here getting $13 million plus.

So Adam Peters comes out with the guy that, truthfully, by the time we came down to it, he

was the top tight end on my list.

I know some of you still like Isaiah likely and something I don't like Isaiah likely.

I just didn't necessarily see the fit.

Things like that.

There's some other openings that we'll talk about here later in this episode.

Let's get to the other Maryland Terp coming back in this time.

It is a full blown homecoming Nick Cross, Bowie Maryland products coming back to the DMV.

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today talking about local teams and local products Nick cross safety coming over from the Indian

apolis Colton.

He's someone who hit our radar.

We've been talking about him.

I think we talked about what three or four episodes or so leading into Wednesday when

he was when he did agree to sign with the Washington commanders.

That contract should be done, hopefully by the end of the week, get some some some logistics

worked out between he and his agent and the team and all those things, but Nick cross

will be coming in here and not only is Nick cross a safety who can play in the box.

He can tackle.

He can cover.

He is fast and not only like he's not fast in the way that we all think fast, right?

He is 43440 fast.

We know Adam Peters loves athletes 9.87 relative athletic score at the NFL scouting

combine coming out of Maryland in 2022 near perfect and that's basically a trend this

week.

We've been talking about near perfect.

It's funny.

I actually had one of our every day or all access members point out to me in a text message

that Chico Conquo's Razz relative athletics or was actually not very good, but I would

say that's a true developmental story.

You see where Chig has come from since entering the NFL.

I think that if you had the opportunity to do those measurements again, we'll probably

go a lot better.

But Nick cross from booey Maryland, went to the math, went to Maryland, obviously all

kinds of local stuff ends up with the Indianapolis Colts.

Now he's coming back and what's really fun and what's really interesting was Lance

Zirline did his NFL dot com draft profile, the comp that he gave to Nick cross Cameron

Curle at the time, Washington safety cam curl.

So I mean, it's just it's just a lot of connections and it's almost like what took you so long?

What took you so long to get back to the DMV?

But Nick cross coming in and listen, people talked about at safety.

You need a guy that can cover, you need a guy that can tackle, you need a guy that can

rush the past because they don't say Jones is going to rush more than, you know, any

other defense coordinator we've seen here, at least in recent times, guess what?

Nick cross checks all three of them blocks.

He can do all three.

If you go watch with the Indianapolis Colts, it's exactly what he did with Lou and Arumo.

You talk about his versatility here as a chess piece in the Indianapolis Colts defense.

I got some stats here pulled up from you.

Let me find them.

Don't know where they are in my spreadsheet, but 120 tackles.

He's registering in tackles at a high clip right over 100 tackles.

He's at tackles for loss.

He's got sacks.

He's out force fumbles.

He's an interception like this dude is literally hitting every single block you can in a defensive

stat box.

He's going to play in a fantasy football league that uses individual defensive players

than one.

Congratulations.

You're as insane as I am because I play one of those leagues to Nick Cross needs to be

on your radar.

I'll tell you right now, you might want to keep it a little bit quiet too, because not

a lot of people are going to be looking at Nick Cross on that radar.

So right now Nick Cross is on my radar to be my individual defensive player there.

It is 120 tackles, two and a half sacks and an interception.

Also had a force fumble or was in on a force fumble like this is a high volume playmaker.

Here is not a scenario that you can put on the football field that Nick Cross cannot

play in.

And you know what the best part is he's 24 years old.

This dude is 24 years old and he's already shown that growth in one year under Luana

Rumo.

Now it is one year under Luana Rumo, but Luana Rumo former Cincinnati Bangles defensive

coordinator, current Indianapolis Colts coordinator is someone go back to Dorontay Jones's introductory

press conference.

Go back to when we were talking about Dorontay Jones as a candidate for the Davis coordinator

position.

And we went down the rabbit hole of all the coaches that he's worked with, he's worked

with Brian Flores, he's worked with Zimmer, he's worked with Luana Rumo.

These are guys that have influenced how Dorontay Jones sees the game, how he's going to call

the game, how he's going to stack his defense Nick Cross again comes from that garden.

Like he's coming from one garden to the same garden, just in a different location.

And I think it's going to work very, very beautifully.

Obviously, I'm very excited for all of this and listen, I'm not even a local like I'm

not from the DMV.

I wasn't born here.

I didn't grow up here and all these of it, but it's just such a cool connection and a cool

just just beyond the cool connection, the storyline of the locality, just the mass between

he and Dorontay Dorontays from the area as well, Chig coming from Maryland, I mean, it's

a local day.

It's like Josh Harris went out there and said, hey, AP, the fans ain't happy brother.

Let's let's bring some energy, but also let's bring some local energy.

Oh, while we're at it at the end of the day, let's drop some RF, RFK stadium 2.0 rendering

just to wrap a nice local DMV bow on the entire day and listen, I'm not saying that's

what happened, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out if that is what happened.

So getting more into what Nick Cross brings in again, chess piece, right?

He can play all over all three levels of the defense.

He can blitz he can cover.

He can hit.

He can do all of it.

Plug and play for the Washington Mayor's defense.

He may not know the exact language like Luana Ramos language, maybe a little bit different.

I went to Rante Jones, just based off influences and things like that, but he's going to understand

the structure.

He's going to understand the vision and that's just that's going to be a really big part

of it.

You can you NFL.com listed as one of their top 50.

So out of the top 101, Nick Cross was in the top 50 of the free agents available in this

year's free agent class and they wrote notes in there, the quote, you can structure a defense

around him.

I think that's really usually safeties.

It's like you're so far off the ball, you know, like all these other things happen.

But again, a guy like Nick Cross can really impact the defense and impact opposing offenses

from any level of the defense, joining forces with guys like Leo Chenol, who's coming over

from the Kansas City Chiefs, the guy who can operate outside, he can operate inside.

He can be an off ball linebacker, outside linebacker, edge rusher, a gap mug linebacker,

like he can do all these things.

I'm telling you, I'm anticipating some looks here and again, we still got the draft.

We got to figure out all these other players, but I'm anticipating some looks here in 2026 where

you see Leo Chenol and you see Nick Cross and you see Frankie Luvu all lined up in like

a pyramid formation almost within the guards, within the outside shoulders of the two guards

in that space.

And then two of them are going to come and one of them is going to drop and you don't

know who it is.

Probably not Frankie, right?

I think probably Chenol or Nick Cross is going to be the dropper.

But the bottom line is the old lines that have to figure it out to those guys are coming

and one guy is going to drop and you might see one guy drop whoever that guy is dropped

to the left side.

And let's say maybe Will Harris is behind him.

He drops to the left and Will Harris is coming underneath to try to hit your flare or hit

your wheel route or something like that.

Just a lot of creativity, a lot of creative things that Doronte Jones can do with his defense,

which I think is exactly what the point was.

And also by the time, by the way, he can play special teams, had a blocked punt for the

Indianapolis Colts, I think 22, 22, 23 season, he was able to do that too.

So again, Nick Cross, a guy that can just impact your team, $7 million annual average value

you're getting a 24 year old starter potential there.

I'm not going to say right now he's a starter, but as you can probably do from my excitement,

like I think he's probably going to be a starter here.

And I'll be honest with you, I haven't decided yet and I know like the knee jerk reaction

is going to go one way, but try not to get into knee jerk reactions here.

I haven't decided yet if I think that this is a knit cross and Will Harris backfield

or if it's a Nick Cross and Juan Martin backfield, because remember Doronte Jones said specifically

about Juan Martin, some things that he could do that he saw him do a college that he thinks

he'd unlock here in the NFL and Juan Martin, very versatile, similar to Nick Cross style

of defensive back.

And if you have two of those dudes on the field, imagine having Nick Cross and Juan Martin

back there and one of them's in man, one of them's blitzing or one of them in the zone

maybe to cover six, like all kinds of different variations.

And when the offense moves, you don't have to move, which is what kind of a read for the

quarterback zone read, right?

But you might be a man, but you don't have to move because both your safeties can do the

same thing.

I know, I know, I know there's a lot of Juan Martin down and I don't necessarily blame you.

Like there's a lot of rough and there was some rough football there, especially at the

end of the season.

Trust me, Juan knows it just as much as you guys know what we talked about it a lot.

But if Juan cannot have the yips, if he can get over kind of the past mistakes and allow

himself to reset and allow himself to be taught and molded by Dorante Jones, the skill set

that Nick Cross has, there is there in Juan Martin.

Again, the question is, can he be unlocks, can Juan get out of his own way in a lot of

this and everything else?

Jeremy Reeves also a player that we can get excited for about Dorante Jones.

But anyway, back to the free agency per picture of this.

There was a question that TJ asked one of our everyday or all access members yesterday

that we couldn't get to in the mail back up.

So one of the kind of touch on here was asking if the Wasch Bears could double dip in the

edge group, even though you got a Daufe Ohway, could they double dip and he actually brought

up Trey Hendrickson and what's really interesting is TJ, you almost nailed it.

The Wasch Bears were in on the TJ Henderson, TJ Henderson, Trey Hendrickson.

I don't even know where I went there.

Trey Hendrickson conversation, but ultimately obviously it was Baltimore that ends up

paying the ransom that he needed to get there.

The Wasch Bears go Caleb on chase on the follow up question that TJ had is does this take

the Wasch of Commanders out of contention for an edge rusher at number seven.

And I'm going to say no, I don't think it does.

However, I'm going to caveat that by saying as we look at the roster today, which we're

going to do here just a little bit, the needs at other places are too great to allow the

Wasch Bears to go edge at number seven right now.

Now there's still other things that can happen.

You have another phase of free agency guys are going to get released.

There's still guys out there, things like that.

But I do want to answer that question here before we move on into this episode into our

final one.

We're going to look at the offense and the defense as it stands today at the beginning

of the newly year six p.m.

Eastern time on Wednesday, well, newly year started four p.m.

We went live at six p.m.

So we're going to look at the roster as it stands, identify where the Wasch Bears still

have a work to do, which could then potentially put edge back on the group or on the board

at number seven in the NFL draft.

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Wrap it up today's episode of Locked On Commanders, the end of day three of free agency, the

beginning of the New League year, happy NFL New Year, by the way, to everybody out there.

Four PM Eastern time is when the New League year began and it is when the deadline for teams

to tender offers to restricted free agents came and went and the Washington commanders did

not tender third year, fourth year running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. with a restricted free

agent tender, making him an unrestricted free agent and it did not take long for the Jacksonville

Jaguars to give Chris Rodriguez a two year deal, very good deal for Chris to be quite

honest with you.

I'm bummed to see Chris go, we've had this conversation plenty of times on these episodes.

If you're never there, if you've been around for a little while, I have never really thought

that the Washington commanders, no matter who the office coordinator was, no matter who

the coach's staff was, have ever really used Chris Rodriguez Jr. to the full extent of

his capabilities.

So from that aspect, I totally get why this whole thing kind of got to where it is, where

the watchman does not necessarily see the potential in Chris Rodriguez Jr. to the full

of success, never really seemed like they really kind of gave him the opportunity to do

that.

That's just my opinion and my observations.

However, he's going to Jacksonville now, where if you like to follow former commanders

that maybe you liked, and I know a lot of you liked Chris Rodriguez Jr. had a very niche

following, a very cult following here within the fan base, especially lots on commanders

listeners.

He's going to Jacksonville where he's reunite with Liam Cohen.

Liam Cohen was his coach at Kentucky in college.

So if there's a coach in the NFL who won, understands who Chris is, too, understands what

he's capable of in three is going to give him the opportunity to show it on the NFL stage

consistently.

It's Liam Cohen.

And the version of Chris Rodriguez, Liam Cohen is getting now is a lot better than the

version of Liam Cohen or version of Chris Rodriguez that he had in Kentucky.

So we wish Chris Rodriguez Jr. all the luck in Jacksonville, just like every other

former player, except for when the watchman commanders come to town and the watchman

are coming to town facing the jacksville Jaguars this season.

So you will see, see Rod again.

Now, what does that mean for the watchman commanders?

Well, Mark had a question every day or club, all access number, Mark came through with

a question about the running back room, about Rashad White is Rashad White, a legitimate

target.

And yes, I do believe that Rashad White is a legitimate target.

He's still on sign really not a lot of rumors about him.

Truthfully, I kind of wonder if they're doing this thing where it's like Rashad and Brandon

and I you are going to sign at the same time and like, Jayden's going to be there to

like, welcome him.

I don't know.

They might be doing this like video of like back together again, all this kind of stuff.

But the bottom line is whether it's Jeremiah, love, whether it's Rashad White, whoever

did the watchman has to get running back.

They have jacquery, crosskey, merit, and we all love Bill, but the man can't do it by

himself.

So the watchman has to actually absolutely go out there and get running backs, whether

it's Shrad White or not.

So what else is left?

We know running back is left.

But what else?

Let's look at the offense.

Shig, a conqo, the only new name on the watchman is offense.

You got some resigning.

First Mariota is coming back.

Nick Allegretti, New Deal, Andrew Wiley is coming back.

Laramie Tumsle's got his extension, Traylon Berks is back, things like that and all

that.

And that's great.

But the only new face, Shig, a conqo, you still have openings on that offensive line.

Perhaps one interior offensive line.

And Chris Paul has not been signed as of the time of us going live here at 6 p.m. on

Wednesday evening.

So potentially a reunion happening there at a later period in time.

Obviously, the running back position.

I mean, you got to add at least two or three, you got to add, I would say you got at

at least three running backs before training camp.

One of those could be an undrafted for the agent.

So whether they signed two running backs or they draft two running backs, like you got

to go get two more running backs before this thing.

Because Corey Croskey Marit looks very, very lonely there with his name all by itself.

Jake Moody is also back on a new deal.

And he is hopefully not going to be the only kicker we see when it comes time for competition.

Number two wider receiver.

Right now, I've got Jalen Lane kind of penciled in there as your extra, you're not your

extra receiver.

You're zero receiver, which is often often called out as your number two receiver, although

it doesn't necessarily work that way in pecking order.

And then Luke McCaffrey.

I've got in there at the slot as like your power slot.

So Chris certainly go off smears to still do some work at the wide receiver position as

well.

Wouldn't be surprised to see them not just bringing Brandon and I you, but because he is coming

off that injury and you want to operate off what you know, not what you hope.

He even go out and get another one, Darnell Mooney is still out there.

I'm a big fan of Darnell Mooney.

I still think that he potentially could benefit from a better offensive scheme than what

he was operating with in Atlanta could be proven wrong.

I don't know, but I wouldn't hate a Darnell Mooney, Brandon, I you combination at the receiver

position.

Chris Paul coming back, like a couple of moves there.

And then keep out for Jeremy McNichols.

Jeremy McNichols is an Anthony Lynn guy, Anthony Lynn, the running backs coach of the

wash commanders.

As far as I'm aware, Jeremy McNichols has not signed anywhere else.

I was at this time.

So would not be surprised to see Jay Mac come back.

Give you Corey Croskey married in the room.

And then you see what the wash mayors do with maybe your shot white or whatever they decide

to do from there, which will impact all of our future mock draft Monday is moving forward

as this weekend did because on the defensive side on the ball, we got orange, which for

my own sake on my slides, I track new players in orange.

I signed free agents, rather, I track free agents in orange.

You got Nick Cross up there at safety, like we just talked about.

We got a meek Robinson Robertson.

I'm going to get that right.

It's where someday a meek Robertson coming in.

I've gotten penciled in there as you're starting slot corner.

Right now I push Mikey Sandercell to the outside corner spot.

I would not get to hung up on where I'm listing these guys in the depth chart because I am

doing some evaluations and I'm doing some things where I'm kind of trying to play with

my crystal ball just a little bit.

No starting Mike linebacker.

As of now, Jordan McGee is kind of that top guy and I know a lot of people like well,

Leo Chanel could be a Mike linebacker.

He was the back up to Nick Bolton, the Mike linebacker in Kansas City.

So there is some potential to that.

But Leo Chanel is definitely a guy who works better when he can free flow and move around.

So I don't know if that's really the role for him.

Other new guys, Caleb on Chase, and we talked about Tim Settle coming back to Washington.

And of course, Adafee Oway, the crown jewel of day one of Adam Peters free agent class.

All in all, it started slow.

It started a little disappointing, a couple of big swings AP took and missed by I think

all in all.

They're all solid class.

You hate losing C rod.

Got to see what they're going to do with their receiver position.

Got to see what they're going to do with their running back position.

But I think overall a pretty good week for Adam Peters and the Washington commanders.

That's going to do it for today's episode on our next episode.

All those position groups.

I told you that I think they can still address.

I'm going to give you some names of guys that are still out there, and I think the Washington

commanders could target.

We didn't even talk about Joanne Jennings in this episode here.

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