The Dan Patrick ShowPhiladelphia Eagles RB Saquon Barkley joins the show to talk about the tough loss a couple weeks ago and how he was able to move on quickly. Former Washington Redskins QB Robert Griffin III drops by and sings the praises of current Commanders QB Jayden Daniels. And NFL insider Albert Breer stops by and says the arrow is pointing up for the Washington Commanders.
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He's back.
He's back better than ever as opposed to last Tuesday when he wasn't able to join us. Saquon Barkley the Eagles joining us on the program. Give me the difference in morale, how you're feeling is opposed this Tuesday is opposed to last Tuesday.
Yeah, I mean, Victory Mondays are definitely a lot better. But for me to be honest, I've been something that I've been once folks on this season, you know, work on my trains and work or what.
Every one of my.
Mentors is not really getting too caught up in the results and just fall in love with the process.
So week to weeks, just being consistent and that.
And if I'm able to stay more consistent, I'm gonna have, you know, gain more games like this week rather than a loss.
How long is that lost stay with you?
Uh, it's probably you know, it's definitely a little bit more difficult when you know there's usually three to four plays a game that I want to lose you a game, and when you're.
Part of that reason sticks with you a little longer.
But I kind of just had a nice little hour ride back home because the traffic. After the game, you know, went to sleep, woke up, watch film, watched the play and kind of just put in the past.
That's the beauty of the NFL.
Uh.
You know you got this.
We had to go to New Orleans Saints right away, so you couldn't really you know, harp on it too much.
But lunch free mistakes. Move on from him?
What was film session?
Like?
I mean, when you really break it down, I probably had a better game, not statistically, uh against Atlanta than I had this week against Saints, but just one play. You know, I was assisting that whole game and I just relaxed in a big moment and you know, dropped the ball.
But then you get the tight game against New Orleans. Do you say anything like what's the huddle like with the game on the line, who's talking other than Jay?
All of us? You know, all of us.
I think that's the beauty of this team. We've got a lot of you know, captains and leaders on his team.
And that moment, you.
Know, I can remember in the auto right before that two minute drive. You know, we're all looking at each other just saying no matter what final way, just continue to believe in each other, and it will go down and drive and put points on the board.
And Dallas came up big for us on that drives.
Can you lobby for the ball like receivers do this all the time? Can you go back and say either to offensive coaches or quarterback, that give me the ball.
Oh yeah.
The beauty of having Kellen on the sideline is, you know, he has a better feel for the game.
He can he can get a feel for the game.
So sometimes you know you're in the game and you're getting that that zone and you're flowing right, you know, you can look to the sideline or when you're over there, you can let them know, like this is what I see, this is what I like, and this is what I don't like. You gotta have those conversations and it can get changed.
Right there is the running game back, Like, I don't want to overreact to this, but it's certainly it feels like teams are running the ball a little bit more through three weeks.
Uh yeah, I will say so.
I'm not trying to overreact to it either, but uh, you see a lot of backs, you know, having a lot of great games.
You know, that's just the nature of the game.
You're paying a lot of money to these quarterbacks and c these wide receivers, so defense got to come up with, you know, game plans and schemes and make sure you don't throw the ball around.
And you know, we have all that.
We have great receivers, great tight ends, great linemen, and I believe I'm a I'm a pretty decent back, and we have a great quarterback. So we haven't been you know, put it all together yet. So when we put it all together, we're gonna be a hard team stop.
Yeah, But I don't understand this that the running back got kicked to the curb. Everybody else got paid, and running backs didn't like you were you were like scratching and clawing just to get you know, a million dollars more whatever. It was like it felt like you're almost begging for people to pay you what you think you're worth.
That.
What was the process like going through that.
I think it's just the timing, you know, it's just bad timing, especially for me when when it was time for me to get paid. But it's it's you know, everyone is all into analytics and stats and this and that, and you know, if you look at the numbers of what's the highest rusher that was paid the most in the Super Bowl, and you know the quarterbacks and obviously the quarterbacks is the one that feels it.
And you can get a lot of these great backs.
And later rounds and uh you know, use them for three years and then continue to have that. But you know, I think that's just something that people just make up. It's it's not really me. I think one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL right now is brob Perty shout out to him. You know, obviously gonna have a be scholarship together. But he's he was the last pick of the draft, you know what I mean, he was the last pick of the draft. And uh NFC championship game, the gear before Super Bowl game last year. So you know, it's just everything. It's kind of just what they want the motive to be. But I'm just blessing, you know, happy for the opportunity I have right now.
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We've been doing this. I've been doing this a long time.
It's very rare when somebody reaches out and sends a personal note a text to say I'm sorry I can't join you. I have great respect for you and certainly appreciated you doing that. You didn't have to. I did agree that you shouldn't have come on after that loss. It wouldn't have been a good look for you, but you know you had a sponsorship there. But thank you for sending the text to the show. I really appreciate that.
Yeah, of course, I felt like that was the right thing to do.
And I saw what you put out there, and I agree to I don't think more so of not being a good look for me, because at the end of the day, I'm a big boy. I get paid a lot of money. That happens when when you're make mistakes or you let a team down. You got to face those questions. And I did that after the game, and to be honest, throughout the whole week leading up to the Saints. But I definitely felt like it would have took off a lot of you know, the focus on you know, the sponsor and Applebee's and you know, the the official bar and grow of the NFL, and I said fifty allness wins by the way.
But yeah, but for me, I just felt that was the right thing to do.
And you know, being a big fan of your show, and obviously you know, talking to you and send down with you and you know, kind of being mentored and gave me a lot of great advice.
I felt that was the right thing to do.
All right.
If you if you need advice to go into this business one day, my advice would be to get into the business quicker while you're still playing. I think that's really important to get get some reps here, you know, learn learn how to ask questions, or if you're going to be just an analyst, watch analysts certain analysts and say all right, I'm gonna pattern myself. But if this is what you want to do, start working on that now. As I told you when I think I saw you in Miami at the Super Bowl.
Yeah, on that topic, how do you feel about podcasts for athletes?
Well, you got to tell me something and you got to be careful, Like Micah Parsons, to me, is becoming more for a podcaster and what he says than the way he's playing, because Dallas hasn't been playing well and he's a wonderful player. It's just you gotta be careful if you're going to do one what are you saying while you're still playing? And people aren't going to just tune in, go oh, say Kwon Barkley's got a podcast. They want to know what is different about your podcast? And that's the That's the true challenge that I tell athletes or former athletes. What are you telling me that I can't get elsewhere? What are you doing that's different than anybody else? That would be the challenge that I would have for you. Have somebody on with you, but you got to say things. You gotta have you gotta have content there and a lot of people don't want to say anything. So that's where I would call you. If you go in and do it, then do it and have a purpose, have a game. I mean, it's no different than you wen week out have a game plan, but you got to have that game plan, you know. Draymond Green has done a pretty good job, but he likes being a bad guy. He likes being the villain. You know, are you are you capable of like you're too likable? You know, can you can you be a bad guy? Do you want to be a villain?
You know?
Those are things that you have to embrace and and that's really the big challenge I find for athletes.
Yeah, I think I think more of a find a ways, like on a bye week or play a safe player Thursday night game in short week, trying to get on television and then do stuff like that because that's actually something I want to do. I've had a passion for it ever since I got in the league. But like you said, I think it's you have to be able to, you know, have purpose behind it, and it's hard to balance, especially in the NFL, and you know, you only have seventeen weeks and when you're balling and you're playing high, it's easy on that show and talk, but you have an important drop in Monday night football and everyone's saying you suck and you should go back to New York.
I do.
I do like the podcast Athletes because I feel like it gives you a say, especially during my whole conversation or the whole negotiation process with New York and there would be stories lead to me and oh it's this number or that number.
It gives you your voice. But I think I think you hit it on you know, I think you hit on that.
But that's that's the right approach. But will would you have been willing to come on after that loss when you drop the pass that next day and do a podcast and be honest with people? Would you be honest with you know, some of the hate that you got from fans, the anger you got from fans. Now if you do that, now you got some people's attention there. But are you willing to do that to be that revealing?
Yeah?
I think it's it depends, right. It's easier. I feel like when it's all on my back because I can go over there and talk about myself. But like you said, you know, when I'm working for a brand and you know obviously we're here on behalf of Applebee's kind of taking you know, the spotlight away from them when you know they've been doing thea's job for me and putting me in a position. So when when it's on your own self and you know it's I do it anyway. I have twenty thousand cameras in my face saying how do you feel about that drop?
Isn't that the third? You know?
So it's like I answered the question, and so I feel like you have your voice there, but then you also have your voice on your own platform. But it's a give and take and it's tough, and you know, I think Micah, you know, obviously being a good friend of Micah, you know, I think.
He's doing a great job.
But like I said, especially in that market, it definitely could be you know, Dallas, Philly in New York, those probably three.
You gotta win, you gotta win. I mean that that makes it a whole lot easier. What bothered you about Hard Knocks in how you were portrayed.
To be honest, it really wasn't hard knocks. It was more of the year prior with negotiation, because like you would get these you would get these numbers that would come out and be like Saquon turn down this, and Saquon turned all that, and like some of the numbers would be correct, but they're like they would give you some of the truth, but not the whole truth, and like just the truth to kind of spin it and make a certain person look bad, and it's just like, well, all right, if me and you are having this conversation, right and we're talking numbers, and then it goes out that this number was said, and only me and you had this conversation, and I'm not the one who says it.
I know it definitely came from you.
So for the Hard Knocks say, I thought the Hard Knots was a cool, unique way to let fans in because obviously it's always been about training camp, but let fans in and see the off season and see how really like because I watched the episode three and I think it was cool how they like they have like the poker table and like they're like, Okay, this is when you gotta do this the spot, get the office a linement. It gives fan the opportunity to see that have that perspective. But for me it was weird, I guess because a lot of it is about me, and like I was like, it felt like it was just like, all right, my name was just getting used because in reality, it was like I had one phone call with Joe, which was the phone call that was on and my agent probably spoke to him a couple of times, but like on this side, like in my life in reality, it was like the Giants really never were actually in play the second time for me going to negotiation of hitting the Free Agency when they could have been the whole time.
So it was fun.
It was it was different, but I really think it was cool for the fans for sure.
Yeah.
I felt bad for you because I don't think you knew that you were being taped, that this was on camera, that you're kind of negotiating. And then when did you find out that they were going to put that on Hard Knocks and you didn't even know that you were being recorded?
Yeah, I don't.
I wasn't upset about that. Uh, you know, it's part of business. Like I said, I didn't find out to the trailer. I saw a trailer like the Hard Knocks of the Giants, and I was like.
Oh, it's gonna be pretty cool.
And I looked at it and I heard, uh, you know, the conversation to me, But I wasn't really upset about it.
Honestly.
I reached out to to Joe and I was just like, I wish you would have told me.
I would have put my active voice on. I would have you know, I would have gave me.
I would have gave a TV uh a TV answer, and you know, uh, you know, made a little more fun, spiced up the show a little bit more. But uh yeah, it's it's that that really didn't bother me and I when they.
Told you, say, when they told you, hey, go out and get another offer and then let us know.
I'm like, who does that?
Who says, hey, you know, good luck out there, and then but let us know, Hey, you're gonna let us know? And I go, he's not gonna let you know. Once he gets that offer, he's gone.
You're not coming back.
It's I give you say to your wife, hey, if you find a better offer, go ahead, but you know, I hope you come back to me.
Hun, Hey, listen, you're you're you're talking way too lachical right now.
A lot of people need it.
A little more like you if if I'll be honest, that conversation too. Uh.
I had a whole year, you know, he said.
Joe said, it took however many years off his life the negotiation process the year before, but it probably took ten times more on my life.
But shout out to my agent to be honest.
Before the conversation, he was just like, just keep it short and sweet, so I didn't overreact to that. I just kind of, you know, I said what I said, And you know, I still feel the same way about New York and the Giants organization. Got nothing but love for those guys and Miss maryor family and Tish family.
Yeah, you're just glad that you're in an Eagles uniform instead of a Giant's uniform.
I'm having a bless I'm blessed. I'm still in the NFL. I'm loving it. Just some guys that would love be in my position, you say.
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Wapp former NFL quarterback, he was Rookie of the Year with Washington and his podcast is Out of Pocket with RG three, who joints us back on the program.
Good to have you on. What did you see last night? Where do you want to start?
Dan?
First of all, I want to say thank you for having me on man. Always a big fan of you guys, Always been great to me. So I mean the question is where do you want to start? I mean, there's so much that happened in that game.
All right, Well let me start with Jayden Daniels. And I want to know, with being a rookie quarterback, most important element of a rookie quarterback is it the head coach, the offensive coordinator or is it the tools around the quarterback? If you had to pick one of those three, yeah, you know, then I think it's all three.
To answer your question specifically, I think it's the tools around the quarterback. But I think that goes for not just a rookie QB, but for any quarterback. You know, for him to have scary Terry McLaurin there, a true bona fide number one wide receiver, to have Austin Eckler there. I know he went out in the game with the concussion, but his presence there on third downs throughout the season has been phenomenal. Of course, Brian Robinson also being there, and then Zach Ertz. We mentioned all these guys and every single one of them showed up big in the game. Scary Terry had the big catch at the end. He also had the fifty five yard completion early in the game taking the top off the defense. Zach Ertz had the huge fourth down conversion, and Eckler had a huge kickoff return.
But you know, for me, it's with Jayden Daniels.
It's like a star wasn't born last night because he was already a star, but he is now the brightest light that we have coming out of Washington, DC. And that includes anyone who becomes the President of the United States, because in DC, there's no better city, there's no better city to win in in my opinion than in Washington.
D C.
Well, the star didn't come out, We validated the stars, it feels like because it's sort of a standalone game. And now if this is a one o'clock game on Sunday, people might go, oh, I saw the highlight when you you need to see the totality of a game, certainly with a rookie to go he had a good game or he didn't have a good game, because stats can lie. When we just showed the highlights, there can you run smart like how do you run smart if you're Jadeen Daniels.
Yeah, I mean, I think his game is more than just the running, Dan. You know, when you look at the way that that it went first and foremost, I think Jayden Daniels gives DC hope, hope they haven't had in over a decade. And that shows up when he makes the big throw down the field to Terry McLaren, even though they're in quarters coverage and he looks off, the safety doesn't just stare him down and he makes that throw.
And if you actually go back.
And watch the tape, he made that throw slightly late, which shows you how much arm talent he has and how much arm strength he has that he was able to make up for being just like a half a second late on the throw to drop a diamond to scary Terry McLaren. But I know there's a lot of people out there breaking down tape, Dan, and I just have to say that unless you played the position, you'll never understand how special of a performance what Jayden Daniels did last night was on fourth and four on since he's thirty nine yard line and they're trying to determine are they going to go for it. He tells the coach, lets go, has ice in his veins and completes a nice stop route to zach Ertz for a first down. And then, of course I think everyone's broken down the touchdown pass. You know at the end against cover zero. Everyone in the world, in the football world, should I say, knew that Louenna Rumo was going to call cover zero, And for Cliff Kingsbury to have the cahonas to trust his rookie quarterback to throw a double move against cover zero shows you how much the coach is there in that organization believe in Jayden Daniels. But then the throw itself, him having his eyes in the right place, gaining depth out of the drop to make sure he had enough time to stare down the barrel of the shotgun, knowing that he's going to get hit, waits just long enough and still makes the throw. I think what a lot of people understand is he didn't even see how much of a dime he threw Dan until his friends and family showed him after the game. That's how hard he got hit. And you know they weren't showing that replay in Sincy. So for him to make that type of play in that moment. To me, it wipes out all the conversation about how does he run? You know, is there a safe way to run? Because what he showcased last night was his prowess as a thrower. And I was trying to stress that to everybody in the offseason. Yes, he's the most dynamic runner in all college football, but he was also the most dynamic passer throwing the football down the field, and he showed that off time and time again against the Bengals.
You think he's better than Caleb Williams, that's a great question.
But I stated very specifically that I thought Caleb Williams was the number one quarterback in the draft, but that I believe that Jade and Daniel was the most explosive quarterback, both as.
A runner and as a passer.
And I think that's to me, Dan, and you know how this thing goes and how the draft formulates and how all the storylines get created, But this isn't a Caleb Williams versus Jaden Daniels thing.
To me.
This isn't a CJ. Stroud versus Bryce Young. I think it's a battle or a fight upon expectations and when you give a quarterback like Caleb Williams, whose ultra talent had been working since he's six years old to be in this position. You give him three number one wide receivers, a dynamic running back, a solid offensive line, and the defense that everybody expected to be top ten. Expectations are through the roof, So now he's playing like a rookie. They're one and two and people are panicking for Jaden Daniels. In Washington, there were no expectations. I don't know who you picked for the game, Dan, but I don't think anybody picked Washington other than myself in true Washington commanders fans. So he has taken an opportunity where there was no expectations, and now he's turned it into an opportunity to lead not just a team, but an entire city. So I think that's where the compare in between him and Caleb Williams kind of goes awry because they're in two totally different situations with totally different expectations.
He's RG three, His podcast on YouTube is out of Pocket with RG three wherever you get your podcast. What's different about Josh Allen with this team that it doesn't seem like they have the manpower on defense, they lose steph On Diggs. He's playing great. Yes, well down.
It's the old cliche, or I wouldn't say cliche, But when you have a true number one wide receiver.
Like a Stephan Diggs, there's.
An expectation once again for you to throw him football right. Everything has to start with that guy because if it doesn't, it can kind of throw your team off.
And he's so talented that.
You want to get him the football ten, twelve, fifteen times a game, or at least get him that many targets.
I think for Josh Allen, a.
Big h he's had a chance to take a big, deep breath right, get that monkey off his back off. You have to throw the football to this guy consistently all the time. And now he's able to just drop back, go through his progressions, make his reads, and get the football to the right guy. And I look at this as the same situation, and I also brought this up in the offseason. It's the same situation that Mahomes had with Tyreek Hill. Once Tyreek Hill left, Mahomes now had to go through his reads and he had he even talked about it. He had to read defenses a lot more studiously so that he could get the ball to where it's supposed to go instead of dropping back and saying, hey, Tyreek Hill's got to be open somewhere down there. So now Josh Allen is proving that their offense can be more efficient without step On Diggs, and it's helping him as a player because he doesn't have that, you know, the one angel on his shoulder and the devil on the other shoulder saying.
The Devi's like, he you're gonna throw the stupbou Day's all the time, They're just like, no, read the coverage, it's covered four, don't throw the posts. The safety takes the out route.
So I think Josh Allen is experiencing that, and it was good to see Keyon Coleman actually get his first NFL touchdown as well, because I believe he can turn into that number one wide out. But in the meantime, I think Josh Allen's having more fun playing football.
Yeah, you talk about an interesting luxury, but it's a dichotomy or conundrum. It's I got to keep that guy happy. And I thought this was the detriment of Baker Mayfield in Cleveland with obj that he kept having you know, you got to keep him happy. That's your guy. And then gets to the detriment of you and you see this with quarterbacks, and you bring up the great point. You lose Tyreek Hill and Mahomes became an even better quarterback. Speaking of which, Trevor Lawrence keep waiting, We keep waiting, and he doesn't get a lot of coverage, like negative coverage.
Correct, Why, oh, man, Dan, that's a that is this is why you're one of the best, man because those It's a great question. I think part of the reason is he's in Jacksonville and Jacksonville is not a big market team, whereas if he was in New York or DC that he would certainly get negative coverage. It's kind of the same reason he got paid. Right, if you look at what he got paid for what he had produced on the field, that those don't add up. And I don't think anyone with you know, who's thinking clearly would say that, yeah, that adds up. I'm not trying to take money away from anybody. I'm happy he got paid. I'm happy Daniel Jones Jones got paid. Should they have probably not right, they probably should have had more years to prove that they were the guy. But when you're a guy like Trevor Lawrence, you come out of high school as a top rated prospect, you go to Clemson and you and you're a top rated prospect coming out as well, there's a little more leniency. And he has all the size, the strength, the measurables, the beautiful luscious hair, head and shoulders hair, you know, but don't I don't understand why he doesn't get more negative coverage in the sense of constructive criticism.
You know me, I'm not a negative guy.
I will constructively criticize guys and say, hey, your feet aren't matching up, you're not making the right throws.
You're trying to force this in there.
And I think right now Trevor Lawrence is trying to prove why they paid him when I don't think that's how you should ever play the quarterback position. For for instance, we're not talking about him anymore, but Jaden Daniels, he has this uncanny ability to not try to do too much. I know as a runner, he can, you know, maybe slide a little bit earlier, not take some hits, but to have the highest completion percentage ever for a rookie quarterback in a game at ninety one point three percent was beyond incredible. But when you watch the actual game, he's just taking what the defense gives him. And I think for Trevor Lawrence, that's what he has to get back to. It's not playing conservatively and it's not playing scared. It's playing the position the right way. When it's time to take a shot, take the shot. When it's time to throw the checkdown, throw the dang check down. And I think that's how he can get himself back into playing in a better rhythm and people will stop questioning why he got paid and what's going on in Jacksonville.
I'm also trying to understand the Dolphins philosophy. I wouldn't have extended Tua because I can't hold my breath. I yeah, I know that he had a wonderful year. I can't live play to play with him, and if I do extend him, then I really have to go after a quarterback who can play this system and is a viable backup. Now that's where I would have said to Tua, you're gonna take less money, and I got to make sure I have a great backup in case you get injured, otherwise I can't extend you. It just to me, it didn't make sense. And I know that he had a wonderful year. Yeah, I just and now this situation, they don't have a good backup. I don't know if you asked Pittsburgh, would you trade Russell Wilson? Like, this is a team that's ready to win now, supposed to win now. So where do you stand on this dolphin situation?
You know, if you look at Tua in a vacuum, right, no outside influences, I think you have some solid points. Hey, he's had some concussion issues, we don't some other injury issues, you know, can we really can we really trust that he's going.
To stay healthy. Those are all solid points.
But when you take in all the outside contexts, and we just talked about a guy in Trevor Lawnce who got.
Paid, who had a good year two years ago.
Tuas put together two top five quarterback seasons, so he had earned the money and earned the right to get paid at that level. But your point about the backup QB is why the backup quarterback is the second most important position on any team, Because for years we've heard people say since Mike McDaniel got there.
Anybody can run the system.
Anybody can throw the ball Tyreek Hill, anybody can throw the ball to Jaylen Waddle.
Anybody can hand the ball off to a chain and moster. And now you see that that's not really the case.
So for me, I'm you know one, I don't think anybody should should be Everybody can have an opinion, right then, I don't think anybody should be telling two what he should do with his career. That's his decision. He's the only one that can make that decision. Yeah, right, absolutely. But now with them in the quarterback position, Skylett Thompson goes down. You got Tim Boyle out there Snoop Pontley is on the team. They just claimed him from the Ravens practice squad. Who is going to be able to run this system the right way? I don't know, but none of them are going to be to a tongue of iolola. And if you were to say, hey, well the starter got hurt, the backup's not as good, everyone would tell you, yeah, well no, dug. But this is why the veteran quarterback is so important in the NFL. Andy Dalton in Carolina, Why was.
He so successful.
It's not because the Carolina Panthers or Dave Nalys or Dan Morgan developed him as a player. Right, he's been in the league first ninety years, Okay, he he's and he's played at a high level at times, especially when he was the starter for the Cincinnati Bengals. But you need guys like Andy Dalton in the quarterback room because if your quarterback does go down, you know that you have a quarterback that can make you a playoff contender. And we don't know that. We didn't know that about Skylett Thompson. We don't know that about Tim Boyle. I'm pretty interested in seeing Snoopontle out there. Former teammate love him, but we don't know that about him either. So their situation is, you know, they're up a creek without a paddle, without two because of what they did at the backup quarterback position. And you can't fix that now. Trading for Russell Wilson, who has a calf injury, You're gonna trade for a guy that that that's not healthy.
You know, no, once he's cleared lunch, he's cleared, would you, Adam Schefter said Zack Wilson to bring him in and that's situation. Okay, So how do you feel about that, Dan, I don't. I don't know how the same as you. You just have said it.
You're telling me, you're saying it right to me. Before I let you go, I thought about this. If I lined you up at your peak against Tyreek Hill.
Oh wow, okay, who wins. Let's go one hundred meters? Who wins?
Tyrek wins the hundred? Yeah, he's a He's a ten to one one hundred guy out of high school. You know, at my peak and at his peak. I was a ten one hundred guy as well, But at his peak he wins the hundred. Any anything else? Any I think if you go down it's it's favoring him personally. Sixty forty, one hundred him. Anything over two hundred I win, hands down. Two hundred is actually a lot closer than you think, even though I know he was a great two hundred meter runner, but you know, Tyreek is he's next level. I do think that he could he could beat no Allows in a forty though I think a sixty no Allows beats him. But in a forty I think that that no Allows can beat him. I mean that's a that's Tyree can be Noah.
Just because Noah gets a slow start and and Tyreek is so great. I mean he gets into top gear as quick, if not quicker than anybody.
Yeah, I would tell you go look at tyreek sixty that he ran a few years ago, and look at obviously Noah's pr in the sixty. They're not close as far as like in track terms, there are times, but if you bring that down to a forty, yeah, Tyreek definitely has a chance there because that, like you said, that's not the strongest part of no allows his race.
I mean, of yeah, I have no allows the race. What's it like to run fast?
Well, you know, Dan, I actually raced an F one car like a few months ago. And I don't mean like in the like driver's seat, I mean like on foot. So I was actually winning for like thirty yards. I was very proud out of myself, Dad, And then the last ten I was like running and I could see the car like seven blocks away.
It was funny.
But to run fast, it's like, you know, you see the images of the dogs running and like their ears are flapping and the wind is blowing in their face. That's what it feels like to run fast. The wind is just you just feel that.
And I hope you've experienced that at least no time in your life. I haven't.
I the one thing I experienced, and I tell the Dan it's this. I was in London for the Olympics and saw Bolt run the two hundred. And when you watch somebody, you know, TV will frame it so you don't really get an idea of how fast they're running. They're running fast, but the camera stays with you. I'm on the turn and Bolt is coming around the turn and I said to my wife, I said, the race is over, and she goes, it's over. I said, no, it's going to be over because if you didn't get him, you didn't you get him there, You weren't getting him. The visual is incredible to watch somebody the fastest man in the world in history and when he makes that turn, the camera is not on him. My TV's not on him that way, It's just me watching him. And it was one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.
Yeah, I mean, it's.
Why a lot of people in the track world get upset when people talk about, Hey, this football player is the fastest.
Guy in the world or whatever it may be.
Because they understand not just you saying bolt, but just how fast.
These track athletes are.
Like DK metcalf when he ran a few years ago and ended up getting last in that race and there was no premier runners in that race. Then you see the pole vaulter Mondo de Plantis goes out and runs a faster time than DK Metcalfe did in the hundred as a pole vulter. Right, it's crazy, But Dan, I know, you gotta know you gotta let me go and you gotta gotta move on. He's doing a great job at your show. Can I tell one last story about Jaydon Daniels. Okay, they're playing the Bucks week one and they got blown out. So Jane Dawns is a guy that I mentor and I enjoy my conversations with him because of how dynamic of a player he is, but how good of a person he is as well. And if you remember in that game, late in the fourth quarter, he scored his second rushing touchdown and he didn't celebrate, and I was talking to him about it, and for me, it was like that's all I needed to see to know where this kid is going to go because he's not focused on anything else but winning, because winning is the standard. His whole team wanted to celebrate the touchdown run, and he waved him off, like, this is not what we're about. And when I talked to him after that game, that's what he said to me. The standard is winning. I'm not here for individual stats and individual accomplishments. Even though it's really cool that his first touchdown passes to an offensive blindman.
Pretty awesome stuff, right, But.
I knew in that moment that not only this kid is a star and he's exactly what the Washing Commander's need, but I truly believe that he can be the best quarterback the Washington Commanders franchise has ever had. And I know that's a lot to say after just three games, but watching him the way that he's processing his feeder and rhythm, how he's not trying to do too much and he's just taking what the defense gives him. That's a recipe for long term success. And I'm very excited because Washington deserves this. The fan base, the city, they deserve a quarterback Jane Daniels, and they've been through a lot over the years, so I'm very excited. That's why I got my Sean Taylor Jersey on right now because this is exactly what the city needed.
Great to talk to you, Good luck with the podcast, and thanks for joining us.
Appreciate you. Man.
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He's Albert Breer, the Monday morning quarterback, the senior NFL reporter. Always great to see him. Let's start with a state of the Union with each of the team last night. Let me start with the undefeated Buffalo Bills. What do you think so far?
Like, I think Josh Allen's probably and meant look as really early, but Josh Allen's probably.
The MVP of the league through three weeks.
And I think it's a result of and I don't want to make this like Josh versus Stefan Diggs, but I can remember, you know, I can remember Tom Brady winning an MVP the year they traded away Randy Moss, and I can remember talking.
To Brady about that.
They traded for Dion Branch right after, and it was like like it wasn't like he was happy to see Randy go, but it was all right, Like now I can kind of just go out there and play point guard and all five guys are alive on every route and.
It was sort of freeing to him.
And I think you can see that with Josh now right, like where he doesn't have to look over every three or four plays to make sure that the number one guy has got the ball, so he's playing point guard. And when you add that to his like otherworldly ability to make off schedule play to run to get the ball down field, I think you're seeing a really complete player now. And I think you gotta give Sean McDermott credit for the job they've done on defense too, Like their defensive front's really impressive with that Oliver and Greg Russou is playing really well. But that back seven, like no Matt Mlano, Tredevius White's gone, they lost Michael Hyde.
And Jordan Poyer, and so to be playing as well.
As they are on the back end of their defense in the back seven, I think it's a real credit to the front office, to Sean McDermott, to Bobby Babbage, to all the people that have kind of contributed to developing young talent there because they lost a lot of guys on the back end of that defense.
Yeah, you bring up a couple of great points there that you don't have that number one receiver to go to. Because RG three joined this last hour and he said that Mahomes maybe became a better quarterback when Tyreek Hill left because he was able to kind of distribute wherever he wanted to. You don't have to keep somebody happy all the time. And then talking about that defense, I know, we're we're traying Buffalo as kind of a wounded animal of they're not that good. They're kind of like playing a little bit better than we thought. But and we said this at the beginning of the year because they lost so many players, maybe we really realize the value of Josh Allen if the team is successful that he's he doesn't have the star power that other teams have. Therefore he's probably going to get extra credit.
Is it not exactly the situation Mahomes was in two years ago when they traded Tyreek right like, and now all of a sudden, I mean, and it's the reality of having a quarterback on such a big contract, right is that you have to build a different way, and generally it takes a year or two after the guy.
Gets paid to sort of feel the effects of that.
But you know what ends up happening, Dan is like, okay, Like, so now at the top of our roster, we can pay a few less guys and we're gonna have to fill holes through the draft instead of filling them, you know, with a five or ten million dollar free agent. And you know, I think Mahomes has been awesome the last two years, despite you know, the revolving door at receiver that they've dealt with, and he really showed his value and how they played the last couple of years. He like bought time for a young defense to really grow up and come into its own. And you know, I think we're seeing the same sort of dynamic in Buffalo.
Josh Allen.
Now, I know that nobody wants to say it, Travis Kelce doesn't look good.
Yeah, and it's you know, he's a given.
Now granted he might be almost sliding into that Gronk role of don't worry about the regular season, just worry about the postseason. Can you factor in his off season? Should that be factored in with him not playing? Is it fair to do that.
I don't think so.
No, I mean, I you know, I think some of these guys, yeah, I think he is. I mean and I you know, one thing that was really interesting and talking to Chiefs people in the summer was like he is a guy kind of works himself into shape. They were over the moon with the way he was working over the summer. He didn't miss a single practice and they tried to give him vet days while they were up in Saint Joe, Missouri at their training camp, one of the few teams and still goes away and lives like the dorm life, you know, and like they tried to give him days off, and they tried to pace him, and he didn't want it, and you know, so he really pushed him pushed himself through training camp. I think Kelsey's at the phase of his career. And we saw this last year too, Like, I don't think he looked the same in September and October or November of last year, and like he just had a way of finding that's something he needed for December and January and February, and like his knowledge of the game, you know, his experience really came into play when they got into the playoffs and he got what he needed to make the big plays in the end. And I do think that they feel like they feel like they're better around him this year too, Like Raschie Rice, you know, in year two has looked like he's taken a pretty big step. Xavier Worthy adds something they haven't had the last couple of years on offense. The hope was that they were going to get a Hollywood brown back and the whole vision for the offense Dan and this has been the vision for Brett Veach and for Andy Reid going back to March and April was it's sort of like the you know, you got the two guys in the outside you can fly down the field in Hollywood and Xavier Worthy, and they're opening up space underneath for Kelsey and Rice to have all the space to operate. And obviously that hasn't really come to fruition because Hollywood's been hurt and because Xavier's a rookie's still learning his way.
But that could be.
Another thing that like if Hollywood can find his way back on the field, and there's no sure thing, but if Hollywood does find his way back onto the field and Xavier comes.
Of age a little bit.
You still could see that vision come to life, which I think would help which I think ultimately would help Kelsey a lot.
Stated the union for the commanders is what.
Well, you got to be really happy with el quarterback played right like. I think that they picked the right guy out of that crew that went to Top Golf in April. Yeah, I think Jaden looks so comfortable. I remember talking to a couple of their coaches, talking to d H and Cliff and some of the guys back in the summer the day I was at their camp, and I said to them, like, the word that comes to mind watching him.
Practice this is just practice, was how smooth he.
Looks, never looked out of place right like, and just looked like he was doing the right things consistently and getting the ball where it needed to go. And everything looks just so fluid with him. And I think you're seeing that now, and I think this is something we sort of have to remember with, you know, with Caleb Jaden was in college for five years. Jaden was a multi year starter at two different major programs in two different major conferences. He's seen a lot and he just I think as a result of all of that experience, and we saw us with brock Party, who was another high volume guy in college. Right, is that like Jaden Daniels looks like he's prepared to be a professional football player in every single way. And you know Caleb, Caleb's two years younger than Jayden and doesn't have the amount of spirits that Jayden has.
And I think that that's sort of shown. You know, Jayden looks to me like the type.
Of guy who has already got a lot of stuff figured out for a rookie. And I'm almost as impressed with like the things he was doing before the big throat of Terry McLaurin down the sideline, like knowing when to pull the dat ball down and scramble, knowing when to check it down. It just he looks like he's got incredible command for a rookie. And I think the other thing that sticks out about the Commanders it's just how hard they're playing. Like if you've been watching football as long as you and I have, you can see it, like the energy a team plays with right when they're really bought in and they really know what they're doing, and when you see it from a first year coaches team. I think it really means something and we're seeing that with dan Quinn's commanders right now.
They still have major holes.
I mean, and that's the thing that's most remarkable about this, right, Like, they still are going to have to address the offensive tackle position. They still need like a war Daddy edge rusher. They still have a lot to sort through a corner. Those are three premium positions that they really have some problems to sort through at right But I mean, they got the quarterback right, and everybody's playing hard and they've been able to manage those weaknesses, which is really hard to do.
I think the arrow is pointing way up on the commanders right now.
I'm talking to Albert Breer, the Monday morning quarterback. Would you rather be a Bengal fan or a Jaguar fan?
Today?
Bengal fan, because I know it's going to work out. I mean, Joe Burrow played fine, you know, Like I know people are going to make this about Burrow and the wrist and maybe even his like his frosted tips there. But I think I think Joe has played better week to week, right Like, and he's knocked the rust off. Joe Burrow is going to be Joe Burrow, we saw I think a very real version of Jamar Chase last night.
He looked great too.
Higgins is going to get more comfort well, so they're going to score points.
My concern with the Bengals is on defense and can.
The defense get up to a level that they don't need to be top of the league, but can they be a top ten or fifteen defense, which is what they've been under Lua n Aroumo the last few years. And I think a lot of that's going to be come down to being able to generate a Prett pass rush and getting Trey Hendrickson back to his level and figuring out the corner position. I mean, the guy who was in coverage on that McLaurin touchdown was Dax Hill, who's really a safety playing corner. So like that, I think there are some real concerns. But in the end, like I think, because of the offense, because of Joe Burrow, Chase Higgins, I think they're going to be there in the end. The Jaguars field, to me, like I just I mean, I don't know, you know, like their core players are good, not great, And I think that that's sometimes in the NFL, where you can get yourself in trouble, or like the highest paid players on your team or the highest drafted players on your team are just pretty good and not great. And I'm talking about like Kirk and Tyson Campbell and Cam Robinson, like they're good players, but are those like the core pieces of a champion? And those three guys I mentioned are all very highly paid, right, So it just feels to me like a team that doesn't have like this real strength to hang his hat on, and it needs Trevor Lawrence to be a superstar and he just isn't one right now, you know. So it feels to me a little bit like a franchise that maybe in for another reset, you know. And I think they've got three very big weeks coming up here. I believe their next three weeks, they've got two division games, right. I think they play the Bears, but then they also played the Colts and the Texans. The Texans are this week, the Texans coming off of that loss, and then they go to London and play the Patriots, and that's obviously like a big game for ownership going over there. So if you have a winless team going over there.
You know, like.
These billionaires don't like being embarrassed. So I just it feels like there's a lot on the line for a lot of people in that organization over the next few weeks.
So coaches in trouble flirting with trouble, Yeah.
Yeah, maybe, And I I like they're just a sneaky one with Belichick for me, you know, I just like Tony Kahn has a really strong relationship with Bill Belichick, Shod's son, Tony, you know, to the point where so when they hired Doug Moron as you know, the full time when they removed the interim tag, what was that seventeen I think twenty seventeen, right, that was largely on the advice of Bill Belichick to do it. So Bill's had the ear of ownership in that place for a while now, and I just wonder if that's not rattling around in the heads of ownership there now, especially when you're building a new stadium, you know, and not a new stadium, but you're renovating your stadium and now you know, you've got like sponsorship to sell, you've got suits to sell, like all of that stuff, right, you know, do you need some more credibility? It's just there are some things that line up there where I wouldn't totally rule out I wouldn't totally rule out that as a viable possibility for Belichick in twenty twenty five. And he does have a place I think right down the street I guess right down nine ninety five there in South Florida too, so that wouldn't hurt either.
Great to talk to you is always Albert. Thanks for joining us, all right, Thanks DP,
