WHAT Adam Peters & Dan Quinn Need to ANSWER at the NFL League Meetings

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The NFL is making moves this week.

But what I really want to know is whether or not more moves are coming out of linebacker

or in the interior of the offensive line.

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We are here in Phoenix, Arizona as the league wide moves are going to be made.

They're going to be discussed by owners, coaches and GMs.

And ultimately voted on in the way that we watch football.

Potentially going to change beginning in 2026.

Just like it potentially changes every single season.

But before we get to the big picture.

I do want to focus in on Washington.

Of course, because that's why you come through lots on commanders, right?

Is the Washington focus.

And certainly the big picture stuff.

Is absolutely going to impact the Washington commanders.

But there is more minute things that are going to impact the watch commanders.

More directly.

So you've got a list here of seven, eight items.

Or so I have encountered them.

But items that I want to learn more about possibly.

Or just share with you that we're not going to learn more about here.

In Phoenix during the annual league meetings.

But one of the first things that I'd like to hear.

Dan Quinn and Adam Peters both.

Discuss here in Phoenix as we will get time with both men here on the record.

Is the future of the linebacker position.

Future of the interior offensive linebacker.

I did see a report shortly after I landed here in Phoenix.

John Conn of ESPN was a little bit of information at a Dan Quinn.

Saying that the door is open for a Bobby Wagner to return.

Which of course is something that we have asserted and discussed.

You know, multiple times during the offseason here on the program.

That if he wants to come back.

It's really kind of up to him.

And then they'll kind of just go from there.

But Dan Quinn did tell John that apparently they do feel comfortable.

With the talent they have in the room, which of course.

It's one it's something that he's got to say because what is he going to do?

Whether by not do Jordan McGee ain't it.

Man, Leo Chanel ain't it.

No, of course not.

But they do also believe that the Quinn actually does have confidence in the.

In the depth in the room where we guys in the room right now.

If they have to move forward without Bobby.

But also the interior offensive line.

Right.

Like what is going on.

The interior offensive line group.

Is Nick Allegretti.

You know, going to be expected to be just kind of the slam dunk starter.

And I wouldn't expect to get any true defendant of answers.

Like yeah, Nick is our guy rolling into the summer in and all that kind of stuff.

But just kind of get some insight, get some thoughts.

From Dan Quinn, Adam Peters into the future.

And the current state of both those positions also want to talk to Dan Quinn.

About kind of risk assessment, kind of forming a risk assessment.

And scheming safety for Jayden Daniel, right?

I've talked about this plenty of times here a lot of time commanders.

Protecting the quarterback.

Is really a multi tiered operation, right?

A lot of times we put it kind of solely on the offensive line.

I know some people have put it solely on Jayden Daniels himself making smart decisions.

Not taking unnecessary hits.

Things like that.

But there is an element to the scheme as well.

And we have heard Dan Quinn kind of talk about scheme.

And then we have the next one.

And then we have the next one.

And then we have the next one.

And then we have the next one.

And then we have the next one.

And then we have the next one.

And then we have the next one.

And then we have the next one.

Oh, well, we don't want to talk about scheme and safety before with Cliff Kingsbury.

So I just kind of want to ask the included possible kind of where the risk assessment.

��ance comes in on David Blau.

When how much of that.

You're really kind of trying to integrate into the scheme.

That David importage more getting my stance isn't pretty much can always stay that it's a little bit of.

each, it might even be like 33%, 33%, 33%,

online Jaden and the scheme designed

on protecting Jaden Daniels.

And then that gets you to 99% and on any given play,

that 1% goes to one of those other three areas

depending on the play.

So getting to Adam Peters, Adafee Ohway,

the crown jewel of his for agency class here,

this offseason, the biggest name that he was able to land.

You know, we know that he went after some other,

the bigger names that were out there on the market,

but what compelled Adam Peters?

I know what I liked, I know what a lot of you liked

or even some of you don't like about Adafee Ohway,

but I wanna hear from Adam Peters himself,

what is it that sparked him giving or agreeing

to that $100 million contract with Adafee Ohway,

$68 million of a guarantee over the next four years

and sticking with AP, how his initial assessment of where,

they may not be as top-heavy, right?

Or as top-level secured as kind of the way,

thinking about worrying where the talent

at the top of the depth chart in specific positions,

I'm not gonna ask him to necessarily identify those positions,

but I'm sure we'll get into like,

hey, are there any groups that you really still want

to kind of approach as you move deeper into the offseason?

But just in the internal assessment,

when you look at each individual position group

or position itself, how your vision

or how your view of where that top-level talent sits,

really impacts your approach in the draft

and that kind of goes back to the best player available

versus team needs type of conversation.

And then really, as you get deeper into kind

of the draft room, dynamics and the war rooms,

you know, we know Adan Peters is a big teamwork type of guy.

He likes to hear from his coaches,

likes to hear from his coordinators, things like that.

But I wonder if the amount of feedback

or maybe the specificity of the feedback he's receiving,

the level of the specificity he's getting from his coaches

has maybe evolved since 2024 when he did it for the first time.

roster and stadium updates from Josh Harris,

obviously a role roster updates from Adan Peters and Dan Quinn,

uniform and stadium updates from, yeah,

I mean, I'm sure both those guys will get asked

Adan Peter to think what probably get asked

about the uniform changes.

Maybe they'll get asked himself about the stadium,

but really Josh is kind of the guy for the stadium updates,

the branding updates, things like that,

including any plans to use natural grass in the new stadiums.

Northwest stadium uses natural grass.

Players last year were kind of making a push

to try to get the NFL owners to commit to using natural grass

across the board.

So I'm curious as the washmairs move indoors in 2030,

is the plan to use natural grass?

Is the plan to use turf or how they even gotten that far?

Yeah, of course, new uniforms will get talked

about training camp plans could potentially come up.

2018 was the last time the washmairs hosted

a joint training camp session successfully.

Last year they had plans to bring the Baltimore Ravens in,

but the Baltimore Ravens backed out not the last minutes

or are there any plans this year to try to run that back

as the washmairs get to home playoff

or preseason games versus having the one preseason game

because they had the additional away game

in the regular season this year.

And then international game updates, I would love them.

Typically we don't get them this week,

but it is kind of out there on the horizon.

So you know, something that maybe just be aware of,

I doubt we're gonna get updates there to heavily.

So those are some of the things

that are more kind of micro lens,

washing the commanders focus.

Now let's turn the page over to lead wide things

that are gonna be happening here in Phoenix,

during the NFL's annual league meeting

and how they impact the wash some commanders,

potentially if they go through.

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Continuing our conversation about the annual lead meetings

here in Phoenix, Arizona.

We are once again on the road.

Last week, Columbus, Ohio, this week's Phoenix, Arizona,

annual the meeting.

Obviously, we get some time with the commander's brass.

It's a really big opportunity for us

general manager, Adam Peters, head coach, Dan Quinn,

owner, Josh Harris.

But the NFL isn't here just so that we can talk to Adam

Peters, Dan Quinn and Josh Harris.

The NFL is also here to make league wide sweeping moves.

In fact, the NFL will probably tell you that's actually

why they're here and the part that we just talked about first,

which is the priority for us.

It's actually not the priority.

So again, it just kind of depends on the the fox while you're

standing in the the lens you're looking at it through, right?

So some of the things in the league is considering that

the owners and GM's and coaches are going to talk about

and vote on and all that kind of stuff here this week are

going to have absolute obviously ramifications for the

watchmakers specifically starting with the replacement

ref contingency plan.

So if you don't know already, the National Football League

referees Association, NFL R.A. is potentially going to go

on strike, they're going to lock out or hold out or whatever

they want to call whatever it is, potentially not going to

work and potentially what you're looking at is replacement

refs. And if you don't remember the replacement refs from

the last time that happened, the most popular cliff going

around is Seattle Seahawks versus the Green Bay Packers pass

goes into the end zone.

Two guys basically come down fighting for the ball.

One of the replacement ref signals touched down.

One of the replacement ref signals interception and touch

back and it's just crazy.

And you know, at that very moment, one team is about to get

screwed, right?

No matter how that turns out, if you're a packers fan and it

goes your way, you're like, yeah, they got it right.

Everything was good.

No problems there.

And that Seahawks fans say we got screwed.

If you're a Seahawks fan there, then they and you goes

your way, then you got it right.

And the other team is going to say they got screwed.

There's no winning.

Once that happens, there's no winning.

So that is most popular replacement ref clip from the last

time we went through this.

But the Washington committee or the Washington area, the

National Football League is trying to do something to try to

kind of curb the drop off in, I don't know if you want to

call it talent, call it whatever you want, but they're

instituting or presenting a proposal here to allow the

officiating command center with the ability to assist on

field officials, which right now is limited strictly to

objective rulings like align the gain or clock issues, things

like that, they can't nullify penalties, they can't call

a penalty that wasn't called things like that in review, but

the proposed change for one year only, just 2026, during the

referee strike would give the command center the ability to

correct clear and obvious misses is the quote unquote from

the proposal by the replacement ref.

So this would be obviously a big expansion by the quote, unquote

sky judge, the eye of the sky, and all those things, the

league office would basically temporarily have the power to

fix miss calls like roughing the pastures, groundings,

flagrant penalties, things like that, like that while also

nullifying calls that are made that maybe aren't made, right?

You've seen times where a defender reaches up and grabs like

the shoulder pad and tries to pull a player and the player's

head goes with it and they call a face mask.

Well, the command center of the eye in the sky, what

everyone call it would have the ability to fix that if the

replacement refs are put in place.

My understanding is this is only a replacement ref thing.

So if this say this rule passes and I might be able to

get clarification on that, but if this rule passes to my

understanding, it's going to be completely clear here to my

understanding, if the rule passes, but then the rest don't

strike and we don't need to replace the refs, then it's not

it's not necessary, although I would like for it to be a

saying anyway, personally, I think they can do it pretty

quickly, but that's just topic for another day.

But so my understanding is this is just a replacement

refs thing. Again, I can clarification on that. It need

be, but interesting item there. The second topic we were

talking about special teams. So the team, the NFL is continuing

to kind of tinker with the kickoff rule, I think, honestly,

the new kickoff, which was a little bit weird at first, I

think, special teams coordinators have done a really good job

of scheming it up and it's been pretty effective. The new

onsite kick proposal is that teams can attempt it on side

kick anytime when they're trailing not just in the fourth

quarter, currently, you can only do it in the fourth quarter

and you have to be trailing. They want it to be any time

that a team is trailing, digging the tempted onsite kick. I

do believe they would still have to announce it, which kind of

takes a little bit of the fun out of it kickoff set up the

current rule. You have to have at least six players on the

receding team with their front foot on the restraining line,

quote unquote, the new rule change would require that at least

five players have one foot on the restraining line. So you

would have one more player that you can kind of move, give

the coordinators a little bit more to work with when scheming. And

then the final kickoff rule proposal touchbacks from the 50

yard line currently kicking out of bounds gives the receiving

team great field position, but a touchback heavily penalizes

the kicking team under the current kickoff rules, the trade

proposal, if a kickoff from the 50 results in a touchback, the

ball is then placed at the 20 yard line. So obviously, there

would be a penalty on the extra point or something on the

field goal, try that resulted in the kickoff being from the

50. And then if the team just boots it out of the out of the

field play, they would come back to the 20 yard line. Again,

it would restore the advantage of the kicking team when

kicking from the 50, removing the kind of mathematical incentive

that the defense really has to to allow these penalties to

happen. Third topic, roster building and trade proposals, there

is a proposal on the board for teams to be able to trade

picks up to five seasons in the future. Currently, you can

only trade up to three seasons in the future and would open up

a lot of flexibility for general managers and not surprisingly

to me, the Cleveland Browns are the team that recommended this.

So, you know, whatever, personally, if I was an owner, I don't

know how this would sit with me because, and this is something

on my NASH Josh Harris about because of my GM, you know, this

year's on the hot seat and trades, three number one picks in

the future for Max Crosby or something crazy. And I end up

firing this guy, then the next GM, as I go, they're trying to

track the next top GM on the open market. I'm trying to hire

dude, telling them like, Hey, you don't have three first

Trump picks your first three years. That's a little bit weird.

But again, owners kind of always hold the the ability to kind

of veto that and say, like, now we're not doing that anyway.

So, you know, again, I don't know how much of a worry that would

really be. I think if I asked Josh Harris that, he might get like,

yeah, you know, it's not really concerned now that I always just

tell him, no, we're not doing the trade. But we'd like to hear

from Josh himself on that topic. I mean, that was not an

imitation, by the way, that was just my like, if I was known, that's kind

of how I would look at it is like, Hey, dude, I can veto this.

Anyway, like, it's not like I'm just going to tell my GM, Hey, go do

whatever you want, buddy. And I'm just going to sit here and suck my

thumb, like, no, like before you make a trade, we're going to talk

about it. And if I need to tell you, no, you're not doing it, I'll

tell you know, you're not doing it. If you want to go to the media

and say if I'm intervening or interfering or whatever, then,

Hey, so be a free agency tweaks prior to the 2025 year.

NFL teams could not have direct video or phone conversation

with pending unrestricted free agents during the two day

open negotiating window. This year, they tested out teams were allowed to have

up to five video or phone calls with players instead of just their agents

before they can only talk to their agents. So up to five players that were

unrestricted free agents, they have an up to one hour phone or video

call with those players. I asked Lee O'Shamel if he took part, if that was

kind of part of his process, he said it was, he said it was pretty

effective. I didn't get to ask everybody because truthfully, I didn't know

who all they use those calls on. And I wanted to ask every single player,

mom, but I might be able to get more clarification on that.

This year's or this week, but they are talking about making that a

permanent shift, which I think, yeah, that's that's, I mean, it makes a lot of

sense, right? Let guys, let the team have the security of talking to the

player, let the player have some security of talking, especially where

you're probably talking more like mid-level players to try to get that

done. So injections and injury rules, the command center currently, the

officiating command center, the iron sky, big brother, where everyone

want to call it, right now can only instruct an on-field crew to

disqualify a player if a penalty was actually called on the field.

If this rule change goes through, then that command center, the iron sky,

would actually be able to eject a player for a, say, flagrant foul or

something ridiculous, even if a flag wasn't thrown because the

official didn't see it. And obviously, those would be kind of extreme

situations. There's a pop list edition alteration on the board as well

right now. Players that are on the result reserve pop list physically

unable to perform. Pop list can't begin their 21 day return window for

practice until after the team's fourth game of the year. The

proposal currently on the table is to shift that to the second game of the

year. So if a player starts the year on the reserve pop list, they wouldn't

have to automatically miss the first four games. They would have to automatically

miss the first two games, but then could potentially start their 21 day

window to return. And then finally, some, some reserve, some event

logistics just for your own personal knowledge. I don't think a lot of the

stuff seems streamed and things like that. But the meetings do start Sunday,

March 29th. That is the day. The morning that we're recording this, I'm

going to record this, get it posted on YouTube into your audio streams and

head over to the event center to start seeing what we find out this week.

And then Monday and Tuesday, it runs Monday through Tuesday.

And then we will be back home Wednesday morning as it were. So

here in Phoenix, Arizona, NFC coaches Monday morning, 745,

bright and early, we will be talking to Dan Quinn, ASC coaches will come up

after that. Certainly, some things potentially green from those

conversations as well. Next time on Lockdown Commanders,

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picks. So it's going to be a lot of fun to be very excited. So come back and make

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