Austin Ekeler: "We're trying to win right now"

Commanders RB Austin Ekeler reacts to the Marshon Lattimore trade and the mentality of the team.

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00:00I think it's more so for us look we have a great thing going absolutely

00:03um and we are trying to win now like that's the mentality of the NFL you got

00:07to win now you know if you're thinking about oh

00:10you know down the road maybe as a GM that's something you can think of but as

00:13far as us as players as far as me on this team like we're trying to win

00:16right now because I don't know if I'm going to be here or be around for next

00:19year right it's not it's not ever promised

00:21all I know is I have this opportunity right now and if we have guys that can

00:24come in and help us win and do that right now then

00:26look that's a good move let's get it done and let's get these guys in the

00:29locker rooms along those lines you mentioned the GM

00:32I mean what does it say that clearly Adam Peters thinks enough of you guys as

00:36a contender to be a buyer you know he could have

00:39just stood pad or around here I mean you don't have to

00:42experience this in the past but we did it's been a lot of years as a seller and

00:45that is not the case anymore again hey this is this is some of the

00:51other side right we have a lot of new things going on obviously Adam Peters is

00:55one of those some new ownership as well new head

00:58coach and so those are the decisions that they're going to sit down and

01:01they're going to look at the team they're going to see where can we use

01:03help is this going to affect us in the long term but

01:06in my opinion these guys want to win now as well like they're in the place where

01:10yes we want something for the long run but

01:12guess what leads to that well we need to have success now because

01:16if we don't we're not here in the long run you know how this league works so

01:19hey let's show some success let's do everything we can to win now to deal

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