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A line up quickly, Spears is the running back.

Play action war.

He's got a wide open of control.

She got control inside the 20.

Stays on his feet.

A control.

Wow.

Cuts down.

What a play.

You got a little busy.

Boy, these days are getting busy.

Adam Peters, man.

He is cooking.

Good morning, everybody.

It is Thursday of free agency week.

Some of the new free agents are starting to hold press conferences.

Tim Settle just said a little while ago.

Remember, he of Washington draft 2018 said, quote, feels like I never left.

The atmosphere here is amazing.

But then he said, I do recognize.

He said that there are physical and spiritual, spiritual, excuse me, changes in the building.

Since I was last here, calls it quote, a healed environment.

Close quote.

That hasn't been the case for all of you this week.

From Gary Z.

He did kind of give a maya culpa.

Gary Z. writes, Kevin, sorry.

I was one of those that laid the hammer to Peters on day one.

My bad.

Let him cook.

This from Danny C.

In Potomac.

Danny C. wrote, Kevin, this isn't just directed towards you, but it includes you.

I'm pretty much over being told to shut up and sit down because I'm not a fan of Adam Peters so far.

It seems like many of you in the media are carrying the water for Peters.

And even Josh Harris instead of holding their feet to the fire.

I've listened to you enough to know that you are more than capable of holding our owners in general managers to a high standard.

But you don't seem willing to do it with Peters and Harris.

And then to make matters worse, you and others in media turned a patronizing fans.

And that's just wrong.

I hope you'll read this.

Danny C.

I did read it.

Yeah, look, I mean this.

First of all, I didn't tell anybody to shut up and sit down.

That usually is a response that comes towards me, not from me.

And usually has something to do with the name over the years.

And usually from people who actually aren't even fans of the team or just gotten to town in the last few years.

But anyway, yeah, I think what Danny C. is referring to is that there's no doubt I definitely said on Monday at some point, maybe even on Tuesday.

Hey, deep breath, relax.

You know, this is not, you know, a one minute musical chairs game.

You know, this is like a process like we've done this before.

It doesn't all happen in the first 15 minutes, first 20 minutes of free agency.

They don't close the doors and say that's it or sold out.

Now, on some players, they commit somewhere else.

But don't think that, you know, Adam Peters isn't, you know, involved in the players that he's interested in.

The players that they identified, they have been aggressive towards, but it is a two way decision street.

The other guy needs to want to come here and wants to the money that's being offered here versus the money and another location.

We're not, you know, ostracized by the free agent community anymore, like we once were.

You know, the only reason to come here from 2000 to 2009 was the money.

And then from 2010 to 2020, the only reason to come here typically was, yeah, I don't have any other options.

And I still want to play football.

But it's not that anymore. This is a good place.

This is a place where people think the coaching staff, the ownership that there's competence in the organization that they've got a quarterback that they can win.

But you're not going to get everybody.

And it doesn't happen all in the first 15 minutes or so.

So Danny, I think that's where you're coming from as far as carrying the water for Adam Peters.

I mean, I don't know what you want me to say to that.

I mean, I think he's done a pretty good job.

I know not all of you agree.

I mean, obviously people like Ian and others wanted him fired, you know, kind of almost before the season was over.

They don't see any reason.

They don't see any redeeming value.

I just don't look at this last season the same way you do many of you do and say they regressed terribly.

I can look at the roster and I can certainly size up the roster and say, not good enough, got to get better.

But I also know what he came into and I also know what was intended last year in terms of the players on the field.

Now, I haven't carried his water.

I've given him and the new group benefit of the doubt here in the first couple of years because they had a lot to fix.

But it's my opinion right now that he's doing a pretty good job and has been doing a pretty good job.

And if and when I feel like he's not doing a good job, I'll say it.

And I'll back it up.

But at this point, it's a lot harder to back up.

He's doing a terrible job than it is.

He's doing a decent job.

And look, this free agency period, this Monday through, you know, last night period, nothing's happened so far this morning.

Right, Max? Nothing that I checked right before we went on air.

I don't see anything. No new ads.

I mean, at this point, you know, they've added eight new players.

And they have spent top three money per spot track and have top three right now.

It's a dynamic situation. It's changing every few minutes with teams adding players.

But in terms of new players added, they're in the top three.

So they've been super aggressive.

But by the way, aggressive doesn't mean they'll be right.

Aggressive could still be wrong.

And we won't know any of that really.

Especially with this team, where we have two new coordinators.

And the one that we are really least confident in in terms of what we're going to see on the field,

that's where they've added the most players on defense.

But yeah, Washington's been aggressive.

They've been busy as busy and as aggressive in spending and adding players as anybody pretty much in the league.

And remember, they missed out on players. They missed out on Pierce.

They missed out on Linderbaum, Jalen Phillips, Romeo Dobbs, Trey Hendrickson.

So yeah, they're not going to get everybody.

Again, it's a two way street. The players, if Washington offers, they don't have to.

They're not forced to accept the deal.

Man, can you imagine, though, because the reporting is that they were definitely in it with Trey Hendrickson.

Can you imagine Hendrickson in no way?

I mean, Cheson, I think, was next in line after they didn't make headway with Hendrickson.

Remember, they were interested in Hendrickson last off season.

What did you hear with the Ravens wanted to do, Kevin?

Yes. I actually read the entire Eric DeCosta thing.

And let me just say I may be in the minority I bet I am.

I actually believe him.

I don't think this was a screwing over of the Raiders

or a cold feet situation.

That organization, I know that there's some background of Ryan Grant and a few others.

I actually believe them.

I don't think that they wanted Max Crosby to fail his physical or for them to get, you know, a report on his knee

that left them skeptical or worried, especially with two first rounders.

But anyway, that's beside the point.

I read what he said.

He said our plan was to not only, you know, have Max Crosby,

but to still go after Trey Hendrickson and team up Hendrickson and Crosby.

That would have been something.

You don't believe him?

No, I do.

I absolutely believe that he was going to make a lot of people don't believe him.

No, no, no.

If there was, if it was any team that wasn't the Ravens,

I probably would be a little bit more skeptical, but knowing them and their desire to go out and get it like that.

Yeah, I wouldn't put it past Eric to cost that at all.

They've been busy.

They've been aggressive.

They have added probably at this point no fewer than three, more likely than not four starters on defense, maybe even five.

Certainly another two to three contributors, undefense.

It's been defense, defense, defense.

So far, running back, none.

Only one under contract right now.

And that is Bill Croskey-Marit, because they lost their first player yesterday, Chris Rodriguez.

They didn't tend to Rodriguez.

Rodriguez signed with Jacksonville.

By the way, two years 10 million, I think, somewhere around there.

Not a bad deal.

The only offensive player at this point they have signed from from the outside is Chica Conco.

I'm sure you guys, if you've been listening, you know how happy I am with that.

And Marcus Mario to let's not underrate the fact that they brought Marcus Mario to back.

And they've got a very good backup quarterback situation.

Most teams don't in this league.

And Marcus Mario was looking for other possibilities.

He's happy to be here, spoke very highly about David Blow yesterday.

But there was a preference going into free agency to move to the West Coast, where he could be closer to family and friends.

But he really likes it here.

Really likes David Blow. Really likes his role here.

Mario to coming back is a big deal.

And now add Chica Conco to the mix.

And we are still missing, though, that receiver and maybe that running back.

But not bad so far for Adam Peters and company.

We won't know for sure.

I mean, we can't evaluate this free agency class.

I mean, we will in the moment based on what they paid for players, what they got, the needs they filled.

Did they set themselves up, you know, for the draft to where they could pick.

The best player available, which is what they should be doing.

In a way, they're doing all of that.

But in terms of what the players produce here, you know, a lot of times that is health, scheme, personality fit, dependent, all of that's in play.

Some of these guys, you never know.

Another big slug of cash into the account.

How will they handle it?

There is a theme, though, to a lot of what they've done.

And I will talk about that shortly.

But I am excited very much about what they're doing, but mostly just intrigued and can't wait to see what it looks like on the field next year.

Alright, a couple of things to get to.

We've got a couple of guests on the show.

Dante Wittner is going to be on the show.

I actually had them on my podcast yesterday.

I'm telling you, this was one of the more interesting conversations I've had in a while with an ex player.

Dante Wittner was a safety in the league.

I actually finished his career here in 2016 was, you know, the number six pick in the draft all the way back in 2006 and played for a long period of time Buffalo San Francisco.

He does a podcast, a 49ers podcast with Hall of Famer Patrick Willis.

And I called him and asked him to talk about Brandon Ayuk.

And he did.

And you're going to want to hear, you know, this 15 minute conversation with Dante Wittner on Brandon Ayuk.

Because Ayuk, to me now, with no receiver added Juan Jennings is still out there, but with no receiver added yet in free agency.

No running back added yet.

You know, only three receivers under contract on the roster, only one running back on the roster under contract.

These are the areas in which they really haven't done anything.

But they tried to do something obviously with Alec Pierce, tried to do something with Romeo Dobbs.

There are some reports out there that they were interested in Rico Dowdell who ended up signing in Pittsburgh.

But the Brandon Ayuk thing is more than interesting.

We had the tweet yesterday from Jonathan Jones, CBS Sports, Jonathan Jones tweeted out the following.

When the 49ers release Brandon Ayuk and he signs with the commanders, the expectation is that it will be a one year deal.

Washington isn't putting their wide receiver two eggs in his basket though.

It's a it's a move that will come with a risk.

Man with Washington not adding a receiver and the 49ers more likely than not moving on from Ayuk via a release.

Although I'll have an update to that in a second from Adam Schefter.

Everybody's connected the dots.

If there's a place where he can resurrect his career, refurbish his image, which has been tarnished.

It's here in Washington. It's where he wants to be.

There's a massive need for another receiver.

I'm telling you right now, I'd be shocked at this point if Washington doesn't sign Brandon Ayuk.

Adam Schefter reported that the 49ers are not in any hurry to release him at this point.

The reason is there is no guaranteed money left on his contract.

They're willing to hold on to him for the time being to see if anybody is willing to trade anything of value to them.

He said Washington makes a lot of sense.

He played with Jayden Daniels. They're very close.

He sure Jayden would love to play with Brandon Ayuk, but he doesn't get the sense that the Niners are in any rush to move on from Ayuk.

Even though he knows and everybody knows they will eventually.

So interesting situation with Ayuk.

Look, he basically gave back $30 million.

I mean, that's a red flag for poor judgment on its own.

All he had to do was show up to the facility for the times that he was scheduled to show up to the facility to get his knee checked to see how the rehab was going.

And he didn't and it cost him $30 million.

Insanity, right? Like that's a massive like way, way, way to minute.

This guy doesn't have the maturity. He doesn't have the judgment. Why do we want him in our building?

Well, you know, there are always multiple sides to the story and the truth typically lies somewhere in between.

And he is talented. Somebody's going to give him a chance.

Brandon Ayuk hasn't played his last football in the NFL.

I love the player in 2023. You guys know that if you were listening, I thought coming off that season.

I'm like, he is so during that season. He is so underrated.

He is such a separator. He's got great hands.

He comes up big in the biggest spots. He is a true top 10 receiver.

He was at the end of 2023. No doubt.

If he comes back healthy like that, then I'm interested.

A lot of safeguards has to be a deal they can get out of, but I'm interested.

But Dante Whitner who covers the 49ers has a podcast played in the league and is really a smart dude.

You're going to want to hear what he has to say. I'm going to play it for all of you at 11 a.m.

Also, Vinny Serato. We were going to play some of that for you the other day.

We just ran out of time. Vinny Serato had some interesting things to say about Adafé Oway, who played in Baltimore.

Vinny does a Baltimore radio show and you'll want to hear what Vinny thinks of Oway.

I think you will. Anyway, he likes him, but there's something about him that he doesn't necessarily like.

All right. Let's get to all what you got.

So I've mentioned this before and it is just somebody in sports right now that I love watching as much as anybody else.

And I didn't watch this last night because I don't have the NBA league pass, but a lot of their games have been on TV recently.

The LA Clippers are the first team in NBA history to go from 15 games under 500. They were six in 21 to one game over 500.

That was accomplished last night when they beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 153 to 128.

They're 33 and 32 right now. And I'm telling you those of you that follow the NBA.

They're a threat to upset somebody like a San Antonio in the first round if they can get to that seven eight and get in that way.

And they're in a two seven first round matchup. And the reason the Clippers have turned it turned it around despite trading.

Zubat's their center in James Harden is one Kauai Anthony Leonard.

This dude is having one of the he's having his best season of his career.

He's having an MVP caliber season. Look, Cade Cunningham, Shagil just Alexander, Wembenyama, Jalen Brown, all great seasons.

No one in this league has strapped a team to his back.

Like Kauai Leonard has this year when they were six in 21 and done what he's done.

He won't get the MVP. He'll be in the running. He'll get votes.

He won't be in the running. We won't win it though because it's not a good enough team record wise.

Last night in just 32 minutes because he essentially didn't play the fourth quarter.

45 points on 15 of 20 from the floor, six of nine behind the arc, nine of 10 from the free throw line, five rebounds, five assists, two steals per usual.

His plus minus was plus 41.

The next best on the team was plus 19.

He is having a monster, monster season. He's averaging over 29 a game since February 1st, over 28 a game since January 1st.

He's had multiple 40 point plus games. He had a 55 point game.

This guy is one of the greatest of all time.

He just doesn't get talked about in that way because he's had a lot of injuries.

His picture is right next to the definition of load management and what's wrong with the NBA.

He's a weird guy. He's an odd guy. He's got an uncle that's nuts.

He's involved in this perhaps circumventing the salary cap with Balmer, the owner of the Clippers, Shenanigan from the last couple of years.

But in terms of player when he's been healthy and remember the load management is because he's had serious injuries.

There's been no better two way player during his era, no better, maybe LeBron.

He'd be a top 10 gimmie all time player had he played enough during his career.

Last year just 37 games, 22, 23, 50 games, 52 games.

And then got hurt in the playoffs a couple of times too.

This will be his highest, most likely his highest scoring average season.

He is shooting 50% plus from the floor.

He's at 38 right now behind the arc. He was at 40 plus and he's at 90.6% from the free throw line.

So he does have a chance to finish the season as a 50-40-90 guy, 50 from the field, 40 plus from behind the arc and 90 plus from the free throw line.

His defense is stellar.

He's averaging the most steals in his career since he was a much younger player back in 2014-2015, averaging two steals per game.

Just if you want to watch something that's just been a pleasure to watch over the last couple of months.

The next time I'm not telling you to get the NBA league pass, I don't have it.

But they're on TV a lot, you know, whether it's Amazon or Peacock or ESPN, NBC.

The next time you're flipping it around and the clippers are on, just watch this dude operate.

He gets wherever he wants to get. He gets any shot he wants to get and it looks like he's not even trying.

Defensively, he's as disruptive at 34 years old as he's ever been with those long arms in that claw.

Teams try to run stuff. He is so. Even when he doesn't get a steal, even when he doesn't get his mid on it, he's disruptive.

And then teams have resorted to basically doubling him the nicks the other night.

They beat the nicks the other night. They doubled him for 35% of the possessions.

And they scored 1.7 points per the doubled possessions because he was so good at drawing the double, creating the spacing, dropping it off to somebody like Lopez or somebody like that.

And it ended in a dunk somewhere or a wide open three.

I've always been the biggest fan of him going back to college. There's something about the way he does it.

It looks so effortless. It looks like he doesn't really try that hard.

He's a top 10 player of all time had he played the normal number of games without all the injuries he had.

Not to mention how much more playoff success he'd have had he been healthy.

We consider him a top 10 player of all time. Yes, we would.

We consider him ahead of Durant in this era because of his two way ability because he's been the best defender at that position during his era.

He's a two time NBA finals MVP and the LA Clippers.

They made the trade. They traded hard and to Cleveland and they got Garland back and he's played very, very well.

They got math earn back for Zubots in the Indiana trade.

They got a guy that's hurt right now that was playing very well in John Collins. It's a team I'm telling you right now.

They're going to be in the play and they're probably not going to be able to get out of the play in.

But seven eight playing somewhere in that if they get San Antonio and Wembee in the first round.

Clippers and six.

As long as Kauai's healthy knock on wood.

He's played better than anybody in the league this year.

He won't get the MVP but he's been the best two way player in the NBA this year.

Somebody mentioned to me you don't talk about Maryland anymore.

Why not? I mean, they're losing so you don't talk about him.

Max, I've talked about him many times.

Many times. The seasons over. They actually played really hard and played pretty well against Iowa.

They lost by 11 seasons over. Thankfully, by the way, it was terrible. Hopefully next year's better.

I would have preferred a few more games out of it but that's just me.

All right. When we come back, my thoughts on the four new ads yesterday.

Yeah. Actually, I think we did chase on already.

We did chase on on the show.

So the three players added after the show ended.

Chigakon, Quote, Nick Cross and Charles Omenohu.

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Three players added after the show ended yesterday.

Chigger Conquo, Nick Cross and Charles, a man of who from the chiefs.

He's the one that is probably the first one where there's a little bit of risk.

I'll get to that in a moment.

But I want to start with the guy that I've been kind of pining for since the season ended.

And we started to talk about free agency.

I've been a big chig fan since his days at Maryland.

I used to kind of refer to him as Vernon Davis light.

No one's Vernon Davis or no one has ever been Vernon Davis at Maryland in terms of athleticism.

Vernon Davis is one of the all-time college freaks.

Seriously, I'm not talking about, you know what, Maryland.

I'm talking about anywhere.

The SEC, the big 10, doesn't matter.

He was an absolute physical athletic freak, which is why he went what?

Number six overall to San Francisco, whatever it was.

Chigger Conquo is not that.

He's not Vernon Davis, but he always kind of played like Vernon Davis stylistically.

The size is similar.

Vernon always kind of looked bigger, but I compared their heights and weights.

They're pretty similar.

Chigs 6, 3, 2, 35, 2, 40.

He's a pass catching tight end primarily.

Okay, I'll start with that.

This, by the way, to me is a sign that Senate's not the role.

Senate's not right now what they think of when it comes to replacing Zachards.

That's why they signed Chigger Conquo.

He is more of a tight end that's going to replace shirts.

Hell, Chig can line up almost anywhere.

I mean, he's a good route runner.

He's got very good hands.

I'll get to that in a moment, but I was thinking that going back to that Peter's quote,

when they drafted Senate, and they were kind of recapping the draft,

and he said, reminds me of Kyle Yuschek.

Well, Kyle Yuschek is a fullback.

And Senate hasn't had that opportunity because in the Kingsbury system,

there's really no fullback.

The 49er system there is, the Kyle Shanahit hand system there is.

Ben Johnson's system not so much, but H back, fullback,

and Senate not right now for them good enough or the confidence level not high enough

that, hey, we can get him 75, you know, balls a year.

Plus, Conquo is, you know, it also is an indication right, I think,

that they're going to move on from hurts, not that that was, you know, in play anyway.

So again, it's really good in college.

And first four years in Tennessee with no quarterback will levice.

And then this year, the rookie came along.

He did, but bad teams, bad offensive teams.

I think the thing about Chig first and foremost, if you haven't watched him,

he's so good after the catch.

And it's not just that he's a physical runner which he is or he runs people over which he does.

It said he's got very good vision as a runner in the open field.

I mean, he is a guy that in the open field with the ball in his hands makes people miss.

But then he's also seeking out contact, you know, as he goes towards the sideline,

he's not going out of bounds.

He's looking for the safety to lower shoulder and run over.

But he's got really good vision and great spatial field, you know,

which helps him as a route runner, especially against zone coverage.

So he's really, really good after the catch.

He's a very good route runner.

He is a hands catcher.

He's got soft hands.

He's got great feel again for space as a pass receiver.

The thing that actually surprised me, and I don't know that I mentioned this before yesterday

because I didn't look it up.

I don't think before yesterday.

I would have remembered it.

But he did not test well in 2022 in terms of relative athletic score.

You know, the numbers were okay.

But that relative athletic score was near the bottom for the tight ends in the 2022 class,

which is probably why it took nine, ten tight ends picked before he went in the fourth round to the Titans.

So Iran 452, that's more than good enough for tight end.

I think the athleticism and the explosiveness may not have shown up in the underwear Olympics

in Indianapolis in 2022, but they show up when he's in uniform as a player on the field.

He's explosive.

He's got speed.

He's athletic.

He also doesn't miss games.

He's played all 17 regular season games in all four of his seasons.

Is he a great blocker?

The advanced numbers would say no.

He's not.

But I think he's a willing blocker.

He's not, you know, an unwilling participant as a blocker.

I don't think he's a massive liability at the position.

The advanced numbers say less than average as a blocker for whatever it's worth.

I like the player.

He's very smart.

I had Souter on with me yesterday in the podcast.

He called all of his games at Maryland and said the thing about Chiggy is such a smart guy.

I think he said he's got, you know, an advanced degree or two.

Always super cerebral, thoughtful, good in the locker room.

I like the player.

I like what I've watched on the field since he was in college.

The money's reportedly what three for 30.

So as the AAV goes, you know, it's top 15-ish money for him somewhere around there.

Yeah.

I really like this signing.

I think that they needed it.

And I think it's a really good player who could be truly ascending into a much better player productivity wise

because he's going to be on a team that's going to have a quarterback.

Love Chiggy.

Conquo and the signing there.

Nick Cross, safety.

Same class as a Conquo actually came out early but played with a Conquo at Maryland.

He was one of those guys when you watch the Terps.

You're like, he just looks like a Sunday player and he turned out to be.

Got drafted in Indy four years as a cult.

Third round, he went in in 2022.

Six feet, two 15, 24 years old can really run.

And here's the thing.

And I don't know that I felt this with him coming into the pros at a Maryland.

I didn't think he'd be as good as an in the box safety, strong safety as he's turned out to be.

He has excelled for the last two years in particular at the line of scrimmage.

I mean, listen to this.

Among defensive backs in the NFL.

Only Arizona's Buddha Baker has more tackles in the box than crosses 266 for Indy.

He's done a phenomenal job.

I mean, I think you pencil him in as the strong safety will harass his your free.

But there's versatility there with both of them.

And obviously there's versatility with Juan and, you know, some versatility with Reeves.

I think that they did a good job in getting a player.

I think I think he and Will Harris are your starting safeties.

And maybe it's that you got three safeties on the field a lot of the time with Juan or even with Reeves.

You know, and maybe Nick Cross ends up being more of a, you know, Buffalo nickel.

But 24 6 feet to 15 can really run super athletic high rascore for him.

We know that Peter's loves that.

I don't knock this one at all.

And then Washington late last evening, or maybe early in the evening, they signed Kansas City Chiefs defensive end edge.

Some versatility there though.

Charles Omenohu.

So this is, you know, again, like we were talking about Chanel, you watch the Chiefs and, you know, Chris Jones.

Obviously McDuffy defensively the scheme with Spagnolo, you know, with Carloptis in recent years.

And there's always been some of these other guys.

Bolton always has stood out.

Chanel's actually stood out a lot with Bolton.

Charles Omenohu.

Six five with arms that literally hang to the ground.

36 inch arm length, 99 percentile at the combine when he came out of Texas back in 2019.

He was a fifth round pick, 161st overall by the Texans.

He ended up in San Francisco briefly.

And then ended up in Kansas City.

He signed a two year deal with the Chiefs in the free agency period of 2023.

And he immediately got suspended six games to start the 2023 season for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy.

It was a domestic violence situation.

He also, when he came back in 2023, playing in 11 games, missing the first six, had seven sacks that season, had a sacked force fumble on Lamar Jackson in the AFC championship game.

But he also tore his ACL in that AFC title game when the Chiefs went into M&T Bank and won against the Ravens.

So he did not end up playing in the Super Bowl two weeks later when the Chiefs beat the Niners in overtime 25 to 22.

He was placed on the pup list activated in November of 2024.

And then ended up resigning and playing last year on a one year deal and played all 17 games last year, three and a half sacks last year coming off the injury season.

We're mostly the lost 2024 season because of injury.

Here's what shows up, like you think about Owe, Omenohu, chase on to a lesser degree in terms of arm length.

And I don't know specifically, I think Omenohu is definitely an edge in a pass rusher.

Who knows, maybe he is, you know, in a base three, four, maybe he is a five technique, maybe he's a defensive end.

But as a pass rusher, what you see with him in Owe is you see taller guys, long armed, angular and relentless, relentless high motor dudes.

He has, I mean, his 36 inch, put that next to what was Ruben Baines arm length, like 32 inches.

No, 30.

30 inches. No, I thought it was almost 31.

It was like 30.5 or something.

Yeah.

He's got 36 inch arms, 36 inch arms.

And you see it on the field.

He's disruptive.

He tips passes.

There was an interception last year in a game that Herbert threw down in the red zone that he tipped and it was picked off.

He's got a lot of past deflections in his career.

He's got like six or seven forced fumbles in his career.

So him and Owe, man, you're going to have tall, long armed, you know, edges.

Chasons, arms aren't as long, but he's got athleticism.

He's got speed.

Chanel, speed.

They've gotten younger for sure.

Let me see the ages because I think Ben put them all down in one spot.

Yeah.

So Omena, who's 28 going on 29 crosses 24, a conquest 26.

Chasons 27.

Chanel's 25.

Settle is the veteran here.

29.

Robertson's 28 and Owe's 27.

And how about some of these 40 times?

Owe ran 436.

Robertson 445.

Chanel 453.

Iconco 452.

Cross 434.

And Omena, you, I think, ran 48 as an edge.

Yeah.

Younger, faster, longer, certainly in those edge positions, in those past rushing positions.

So I like all three players.

Omena, who's got some, you know, there's some, certainly a couple of red flags suspended once for six games,

but we don't know where he is.

Mental maturity at this point, overall maturity at this point, had a serious injury.

But for him, one year, seven million bucks worth it.

Nick Cross, two years, 14 million.

By the way, even if that's incentive based on the 14 million upside, he's still likely the highest paid safety.

Remember, Will Harris last year got two years, eight million, four million a year.

Cross is higher than that.

Washington so far.

I think when the season ended, I said, give me, you know, four to five new starters on defense and another two to three contributors.

Oway, Robertson is the nickel corner starter.

Cross, chase on, Omena, who, I mean, you've got, you know, settle, I don't know, is he a nose tackle?

They got four starters, minimum in Oway, Robertson, cross, and chase on.

All right, it should all, excuse me, should all Oway, Robertson, chase on, they've got four starters right there.

Minimum.

And then the others are really in the rotation if they're not on the field when the game begins.

And then they got a tight end, but they're missing a running back in a wide receiver.

There's still more time.

Rashad White still out there.

Joanne Jennings is still out there and certainly Brandon Ayuk is still out there.

All right, phone lines open, 301-230-0980, 301-230-0980.

We are, you know, now approaching day four, by the way, the lead calendar and the official start of free agency was yesterday at 4 p.m.

So no more of the legal negotiating with all the announcements.

I mean, it's kind of stupid the way they do it.

Free agency starts Monday at 12 noon. That's the bottom line as far as fans go.

But where are you on what they've done so far?

And I don't need to know where you were 10 minutes after it started because I know a lot of you were very angst-ridden over the way day one started in the first few minutes, first few hours.

But here we are on Thursday of free agency week in Washington's top three and money spent, top three in new players added.

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But there are others that are still out there.

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From David, David writes, do you think the plan may include to bring Debo back?

Um, I don't know. I mean, they've only lost one of their own. It's early. We didn't think that any of their own were WaveOne free agents.

So I've seen a lot of the bashing of, I mean, nothing says they've got a terror. They've had a terrible roster more than none of their own free agents have been signed.

Yeah, it's WaveOne. None of them were necessarily WaveOne quality.

Um, I thought Chris Paul would be gone by now. I did. Jacob Martin was going to vote. Did he get signed?

Yes, by Tennessee, two year deal worth up to 11 million. Did that just happen? Yeah, like five minutes ago.

So Chris Paul's gone. No, no, no, no, no, Jacob Martin, not Chris Paul. Oh, Jacob Martin got a two year deal with Tennessee.

Yeah. So now it's Rodriguez and Jacob Martin are the only two. Yep, so far.

Yeah, interesting. Uh, because I clearly going into this, you know, they've been so busy, obviously on defense.

The likelihood of not, uh, you know, resigning Jacob Martin was becoming more probable with each day the past.

Um, he really played well last year. What, what, wait, say it again, two years, what?

Two years max value of 11 million dollars. Good for him. Good for him. I mean,

the tape don't lie on his effort and his motor. That's for sure.

But, you know, we kind of knew that this was going to be kind of a second, third wave free agency group.

Um, so some of these guys will still get signed.

That means that Chris Paul is still available. I did see Jets and Giants.

Uh, he's met with both of them. Could he be back? I don't know. Could Debo be back?

I don't think Debo is going to be back. I mean, it would have to be on, like we've heard nothing from that camp.

Or his name hasn't even made the rounds like at least on my time. I don't know about yours.

I'm wondering why Joanne Jennings hasn't been signed yet. I think he was a lot.

You know, not at the Alec Pierce level or, or Dobbs level. We knew that.

Um, but, you know, it's Ayuk and Jennings. And by the way, Stefan Diggs, uh,

in Debo Samuel in terms of the wide receivers, you know, that are out there right now.

I mean, in, in free agency running back wise, who's left Rashad White from, from the list of, you know,

what? It's kind of it, man. That's it, right? Yeah, pretty much like the long and short of it.

Like I'll pull up the list, but the, that's the only name that's going to move me if we brought him in with Beer Shot White.

And he of course played with Jaden in college. All right, uh, reaction to this first week.

Let's get some calls in. Uh, and you're going to want to hear Dante Whittner talk about Brandon Ayuk.

We'll get to that in about 20 minutes. Uh, but let's start with lap lap. Go ahead.

Hey, what's up, Kelly? Hey, man, good, good, good. Yeah, man. These pickups, pickups was definitely needed, man.

And I've been saying for a while, Jaden needs a tight end, like the safety net, man. I'm sure on some plays.

And I'm definitely a pass catch and tight end. Um, I like all the moves so far.

Um, I am open to bringing Debo back. I told you that before. I still want carnail tape.

And I'm also open for Brandon Ayuk. I know we missed on some of those other receivers.

I think they won or two, but, um, we don't, I think we need like two other receivers.

And it would be good to get a young, um, or veteran it or both, you know, as well.

So I think that can help our offense out a lot.

But Jaden has some assurances of who he can consistent with that tight end.

I think it's going to be really big. So with excited about a con quote, especially in this offense, especially with Jaden, the quarterback.

He has not had a quarterback. Um, and I think that he will benefit from, from having that.

And, um, yeah, cannot wait to that. And I'm excited. And I'm excited about the coordinators to Kevin.

I really want to see, um, especially the offensive side, man. Yeah.

I'm curious to see. Do you think we, we probably can get a running back to possibly or?

Well, I mean, I, I mean, there is going to be a running back in the draft that may or may not be available at number seven.

And, you know, I think a lot of, of our fans are now thinking it's Tate or Jeremiah love.

I've seen a lot of mocks post these first few days of free agency that now have Jeremiah love gone by seven.

We'll see a lap. Thanks. If you're on hold, stay there. We'll take more of your calls next.

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