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David Alridge joins the show just an hour before the start of NFL Free Agency. He is ready for the Commanders to spend money on some big men in the trenches.
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00:00hall of famer mr david aldridge joining us now via the rude guest hotline rude makes the most
00:05reliable h-vac equipment in the dmv da how are you man what's happening fellas how are you
00:11so i'm gonna start where nobody's expecting um yeah i know how much attention you pay to
00:19patriot league hoops and i hate i hate that navy got knocked out on a on a half court buzzer
00:27beater
00:27last night had a tremendous regular season and probably you're looking at the nit now
00:33yeah you know i mean i sort of feel bad for them because i do think they were the best
00:37team in the
00:38league this year but that's what's that's what's great about tournament yeah you've got to win your
00:44way in like you can be the best team in the league all season and you get some advantages for
00:50that
00:50you get home field you know home court throughout the tournament as long as you keep winning you get
00:55to play at home every day so that's a big advantage right yeah so you have to take advantage of
00:59that
01:00um and the kid gladden that took them out the same kid that took us out on thursday he's he's
01:08a hell
01:08of a freshman guard like he just like walked down they're both the guys that he beat were first team
01:15all defensive team patriot league guys and they were all both upperclassmen and he just took them both
01:21out like it's just like no you can't guard me either you know what i mean like so i love
01:25that
01:25like i just think that's that's good for the league to have players that of that caliber in it and
01:30it
01:31just and it's just when you win it like we did last year it's the only time you're gonna hear
01:36me say
01:36we by the way with american university basketball you know like we had to win three games in three days
01:45or not in three days three games in a week to do it we had to beat off the best
01:52teams in the league
01:52including navy and that's what you got to do in the patriot league we don't get up we don't have
01:57automatic bid and we don't have at large bids in the patriot league we have one bid you gotta go
02:02earn the one bid that we have and that's what i love about it i saw some people saying that
02:08you
02:08know this is terrible navy should get in you know like like navy like it's terrible and it i feel
02:14bad for
02:14them i do because we were in the same position they were in last year right a whole bunch of
02:18seniors that stayed together for one shot at it i get it it's hard it's tough and and if you
02:24don't
02:24win just it's devastating especially the way they lost right um but that's what you got to do in the
02:31patriot league gotta win three can't win two gotta win three they knew the rules going into it i always
02:36say when you know the rules going into it i don't want to hear about oh they deserved again no
02:41no no
02:41no the rules are you gotta win the get in you gotta earn your way in this is it point
02:46like
02:47earn your way in you know that's what has happened and the kid like i said that kid who's a
02:53freshman
02:54hit a 30 footer at the buzzer sometimes you just gotta tip your cap
03:01all right we got that i at least wanted to address that because it'll probably get
03:06i appreciate it thank you might get lost this week um let's talk about where everybody's brain
03:13is nfl free agency officially sort of opens in 54 minutes um i've been told i'm guessing you have to
03:21to expect washington to be aggressive i don't know that that means you know alec pierce gets 30 mil a
03:27year to join the burgundy and gold but i do expect them to be aggressive what are your expectations what
03:32do
03:32you think they should do i mean yeah i mean we've all heard the same things like you know stay
03:39by
03:39your phone you know um yeah i mean it's it's intriguing because i think this is different from
03:49the old days that we all remember not fondly where they just they didn't take any consideration about
03:56roster or any consideration about fit it's just like let's go get the shiny object
04:00and make people think we're doing something you know and throwing money at people that can't play
04:05you know um i think these guys have a lot more discernment about themselves i think they're going
04:12to go after guys that can actually fill role fill holes that the problem is they got a lot of
04:17holes
04:17and i don't know that it can fill them all in free agency so the question is which ones are
04:22the
04:22most important to them clearly i think they need a center now um you know they made that call
04:29on the oddish um so they got to go get a center now look if they get linderbaum great my
04:38it's just
04:38a guess guys i'm not based i don't have any information my guess is it's probably going to be a
04:43level
04:44below linderbaum like i think kate may would make a lot mays would make some sense right 27 um
04:52uh he fits the timeline a little bit yeah look they give linderbaum 20 million a year good for
04:58them because he's worth that right you know what i'm saying like um it's a i love people who say
05:03you know it's an overpay to pay to pay for the best guy hey yeah that's what you have to
05:09do to get
05:09the best guy it's life in the big city fellas i don't know what to tell you like you know
05:15like
05:16the best players the best free agents get the most money that's how it works in this business
05:19you know like if you want to buy a house in mclean it's expensive yeah yeah don't think you'll pay
05:24the money you're paying in herndon right our great friend john thompson used to say he's a capitalist
05:29yeah that's right this is capitalism you know what i mean like so yeah so i think that certainly
05:37center is is a priority i i do think edge is a priority although i you know i could see
05:45them
05:46addressing that through the draft right like that would make certainly make some sense or or addressing
05:51it at a greater level through the draft maybe you sign a a defensive bet i don't know if you
05:57go
05:57top of the market for for an edge guy maybe they do maybe they do um but i think it's
06:03probably
06:04more likely that they go get a decent good but not the best guy like i don't you know did
06:14i see
06:14somewhere trey hendrickson's goes down with the cowboys did i just see that somewhere that is that
06:18is that an actual thing or that could track dude because they were in on crosby didn't get to the
06:23finish line right yeah right i mean look i'm not saying don't do don't go i wouldn't go after
06:31trey hendrickson if i were the commanders i just don't know that that's i don't know that's the
06:38best spent use of your money right now yeah because he is what's he 35 years old 35 he's 30
06:44years old
06:46um that just is a little too that's a little too long in a team for me right to go
06:52out three or four
06:52years at top dollar whereas linderbaum's 25 that's just a huge difference to me um so and it hasn't
07:00missed a game in two years yeah yeah durability is significant i think do people have to sit back
07:08a little bit because what they do in free agency is going to dictate what they do in the draft
07:13for
07:14the most part that's right that's right so if they don't get somebody understand they may be leaning
07:18that way in the in the draft right right so i mean i i would think like if you're asking
07:23me like i think
07:24i think wide receiver they go after don't bring somebody in i don't think it i don't think it would
07:29just be iuk like i do think there's probably i think iuk is going to come here i mean i
07:34just
07:34seem certainly seems like that's the way this thing is leaning but i don't think that's the only
07:39thing they will do in free agency at receiver i i mean i think they will add another receiver
07:43to the room um you know she would obviously make a lot of sense right like like that would be
07:53that would be impactful i think you know like to me that is there not that specific to shaheed and
07:59i've been meaning to ask be this as well is there not too much overlap with jaylen lane
08:05there is some but i i think he's better i'm sorry i didn't think he's better i don't know
08:14probably more proven yeah so to me it's like i don't dislike jaylen lane i think he's got a lot
08:19of potential but he's got potential you know what i'm saying like she he's done it on the field well
08:25jaylen lane took a couple back i can't say he didn't do anything last year he had a took two
08:29kicks back because that's a big deal you know that matters that doesn't matter um there is some
08:34overlap but i just don't think like to me i don't think you could ever have enough good receivers in
08:38the
08:38room so if it's if it's she he finds they bring back the army brown that's fine with me too
08:44you know what i mean like the army brown played great two years ago for them at the end of
08:49the
08:49season he was terrific in the playoffs right so i've got no problem if they bring him back
08:54mr january yeah i think i think shaheed and um jaylen lane being on the same team although they
09:01overlap what you can do one of the guys you could push them more towards a full-time receiver
09:07you know because i i think bobby um ingram ingram is good enough to get those guys running some
09:13routes if one of them starts to peak as your receiver you're not gonna want him doing all
09:19the return stuff right right right and you get and you have some you know you got some flexibility
09:24there because you still got mccaffrey to return kicks right so i mean it's not like they got they
09:28got guys to return kicks so i mean i like but to me that's a that wouldn't make sense she
09:34he
09:34wouldn't make a lot of sense if they if they were to figure out a way to get him in
09:38here
09:39i just think you need to give five as many potential weapons as possible
09:45agreed with that talking with our friend david aldridge here on the rude guest hotline rude
09:50makes the most reliable hvac equipment in the dmv you give da a follow at david aldridge dc read all
09:57of his work at the athletic yeah if you had to put one position at the top of the list
10:02for what
10:03they have to address what what would yours be it would be center like you've got to get that
10:08like you you get you walked away from a good center probably gosh a good center like i know i
10:15know he
10:16didn't have the he didn't have as good a year last year as as the year before but guess what
10:20none of
10:21them did nobody okay what a better year last year than they had the year before nobody including jane
10:27okay so so that's i'm not gonna like i'm not cutting half the team because they had a bad year
10:33last year like they all had a bad year last year dan quinn had a bad year last year you
10:37know what i
10:37mean like so um i i don't i don't get that like i mean now they obviously they had a
10:45reason you know
10:46i don't think they just did it willy-nilly but now you got to right and so you got to
10:50go get a center
10:51to because that's important very you're trying to block davis and carter that's important in this
10:57division you know what i mean that's important when you got guys the guys in the middle of kenny
11:02clark and the guys in the middle of defensive lines in this division you got to have somebody
11:06that can block them dexter lawrence real block them you know what so um so that like so to me
11:12you got
11:12to fix that immediately um that's that you you said that you want to do better okay if you want
11:18to do
11:18better you got to pay for it totally you got to pay for it totally so go pay for it
11:23but that position
11:24right there they like you said is is more important than people give it give credit yeah absolutely
11:30let's put it this way you rarely you rarely pay attention to the center position unless it's being
11:37played badly right there you go right releasing be honest you kind of now they've re-signed allegretti
11:45he says he wants to compete for that job right re-signing wiley and allegretti to me makes all the
11:50sense in the world you know what i mean good good locker room guys good versatile athletic
11:57o-line pieces i think they've done the same thing with the d-line with wise and tuttle
12:01those aren't the answers but like building an nfl roster is about a lot more than just the headlines
12:08you know that's right that's right that's right and and you know if you let's just say they if they
12:14were to get linderbaum in the air now now you look at that line and you're going whoa
12:21this is pretty good now i mean i assume that they're going to get tonsil extended i mean i would
12:27imagine i can't imagine that's not going to happen and if they do then they got a they got a
12:31much bigger
12:32problem than personnel um if they don't get that if they don't get him extended but now it's a real
12:40strength like the line becomes a real strength and now you can run the ball really in any direction
12:47either direction um yeah i just think of the yeah i think that that to me is is the most
12:54important
12:55position i after that i mean edge to me is is clearly something they have to address both through
13:03the draft and through free agency um again i don't know if i spend top of a market at edge
13:11just because the the best guys are a little older to me but there's some good players again on that
13:18second level i think that you could get um oh way i really like a lot now he may be
13:26more expensive
13:26than i think i don't you know i don't know what his market is but i think again 27 gets
13:33after the
13:34quarterback mafe is another one gets after the quarterback um those are the types of guys i'd be
13:42looking at if i were them well and it's you don't want to make any assumptions but you know the
13:48chargers i think were were interested in getting oh way back but and then there was a lot of talk
13:54that he might go to baltimore with minter right now baltimore is traded for crosby the chargers have
13:58re-signed khalil mac great kind of wonder if okay they're gonna let oh way go to the market and
14:04and that's
14:04a guy that is available um yeah it's interesting now i don't know like like i keep i can't imagine
14:12philly's gonna let jalen phillips go like i just don't like they don't let guys go that they really
14:17like um so i haven't heard anything this morning that that that there's an extension with him but i
14:24mean it could it could happen um certainly i would look at him if he's really on the market but
14:31i just
14:31i'm just not sure he's going to actually be on the market like we'll see you guys will find out
14:35in
14:36what 45 minutes yeah does the davis deal and the looming carter deal affect them keeping phillips
14:44good okay it could but you know one thing about the eagles they spend for linemen they spend on
14:50offensive and defensive linemen they spend that's the one position they spend money on so i would you
14:57know like that's what i'm saying like i would be surprised if he's actually on the market at 12 o
15:02'clock
15:02like that would surprise me
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