00:00In about 15 minutes, we're going to be joined by Nick Baumgartner.
00:03It's going to be really interesting to talk to him.
00:05Nick's a really, really sharp draft analyst for The Athletic.
00:08Works with Dane Brugler hand in hand.
00:12Very excited to see how some of this all shakes out.
00:16I'm curious for the boys.
00:19I don't want to speak for you.
00:21With the new uniforms, Brian, I think if I had to guess,
00:26your reaction is you're excited about it,
00:28and whatever they roll out, you're cool with.
00:30Is that roughly correct?
00:31100%.
00:32For me, I'm excited about it.
00:36Some of it is like a personal working level,
00:39how damn hard the names and numbers are to read on those uniforms
00:44when you're in a press box on the ceiling of a stadium
00:46that you can't tell who got a penalty or who made a big block or whatever.
00:50But I also have just not liked them and am excited for what I think
00:53is going to be a return to kind of the traditional dope look.
00:56The only thing that will legit, like, excite me is if the helmet's different.
01:03And specifically, if there's a spear on the helmet, I'm going to get all fired up.
01:08Jeffrey, for you, lifelong Skins Commanders fan,
01:12what are you hoping for tomorrow?
01:17What am I hoping for?
01:19I'm not even going to lie, JP.
01:20I don't know.
01:22Like, I feel like how I felt when it became the Washington football team,
01:26and I was like, oh, man, how are these jerseys going to look?
01:28And I like them.
01:29I like the Commanders jersey, so I think I'm going to like the jerseys tomorrow.
01:34You tend to be a pretty positive dude about most things.
01:37It's kind of your outlook.
01:39And I think being younger than I am, certainly,
01:43and never – like, the Super Bowl era didn't exist to you, right?
01:47Like, the best – last year was – or two years ago now
01:50was the best Commander season you've ever seen.
01:52Prior to that, it was probably Robert, right?
01:54RG3, yep.
01:54Yeah, so it's just our mindsets are different,
01:57where the old jerseys mean a lot more to me and people my age than probably you.
02:01What about you, Stallion?
02:03For me, I think if they put, like, an arrow of some sort on the helmet,
02:07like, I would be so fired up for that.
02:09And I think as far as the uniforms go, like, go back to the old uniforms.
02:13That's fine with me, but I don't really care too much about those.
02:16Like, I want to see a new cool helmet and then hopefully some wins.
02:20That'd be kind of nice.
02:22I think the wins will trump everything.
02:23The wins will trump everything for me.
02:25Not asking why Brian, because he's not a Skins fan, but I think –
02:30I want to see the Giants with a blue helmet.
02:35Yo, the Giants might have the worst alternates in the NFL, Dubby,
02:38so maybe you should be focused on changing votes.
02:41I like those alternates.
02:42Oh, Lord.
02:43That's ugly as hell.
02:43The fake-ass Michigan helmets and stuff?
02:45Those things are ugly, B.
02:47How do you like that?
02:49They look cool.
02:50I'm not going to lie.
02:51I think they look pretty cool too.
02:52The Giants alternates?
02:54Yes.
02:54And I like the Steelers one.
02:56They got, like, the brown and, like, yellow.
02:59They look cool.
03:00They look like doo-doo.
03:00The Steelers one is terrible.
03:02It look like –
03:02The Giants is the red, blue, red.
03:05When you have some doo-doo.
03:06I don't like the Giants helmet.
03:08I like the jersey and pant combo.
03:11The tan with the blue and whatever?
03:13That is terrible.
03:14Yeah.
03:14That's horrible looking.
03:15The Giants throwbacks that they went to that, like, Mark Bavaro and Phil Simms wore with
03:21the Giants on the helmet and, like, just the red sleeves and all that.
03:24I like those.
03:25Those are clean.
03:26That helmet should be the normal helmet.
03:28It should be the normal helmet.
03:29I agree with you there.
03:29But when they put on, like, them brown pants and they on some khakis with a red and blue shirt,
03:33that don't look that good.
03:34It's like a blast from the past.
03:37That's why I look cool, I think.
03:38The Steelers ones are awful.
03:40The Packers ones, they roll out with, like, agony on the front.
03:43Awful.
03:44You talking about the navy blue ones?
03:45Yes.
03:46Those are pretty cool, too, JP.
03:49Oh, God.
03:50Well, we can agree to disagree, man.
03:53For the Commanders, I just, I have, the thing that would excite me most is a spear on the
04:00helmet.
04:00One.
04:02I hope, and this probably will not happen, Brian, but I hope when we get to tomorrow and
04:10the old logo's not involved, the old logo people will stop.
04:15They will not.
04:16They never do.
04:16But you know what, though?
04:17They need to because I would tell them, there ain't nobody listening to you.
04:21That's the thing about it.
04:22Eventually, when people realize they're not being listened to, they stop talking.
04:26But not in the air of social media, dude.
04:28No, they keep doing what they want.
04:29But if this team keeps showing you that they don't care about all that stuff and they keep
04:33moving forward in the air, we've, in the morrow, you may as well give it up.
04:36How many times does Harris have to say publicly to the media, the old name isn't coming back
04:41for people to believe that?
04:43Like, 8,000?
04:44Like, when we were in Arizona and Josh spoke with us at length, he said, yeah, you know,
04:47for the hundredth time, we're not changing the name back.
04:50But, like, I just, I'm a believer in compromise and, like, moving things forward.
04:57And I just, I don't want tomorrow to end up in, like, a super annoying.
05:02But see, that's the thing about it, Jay.
05:04Like, we already know, the loudest is not the majority.
05:07And you're going to have some, the people that always want us to agitate, they're loud as hell.
05:12Because they're persistent.
05:14But the thing of it is, just like in 2024, when the team was winning, those SOBs disappeared.
05:21Just like cockroaches when you turn on a light.
05:23That's the way I look at them.
05:25It'd be great if they just win.
05:27Yeah, let's get back to that.
05:29Make it a lot more easy.
05:32I'm excited for that.
05:33I'm excited for the draft stuff.
05:35Did you see, I don't know if you're having to see this, Wale's tweet yesterday?
05:39No.
05:39Do you know, and I was not aware of this, do you know the last time Washington drafted
05:47a running back in the first round of the draft?
05:52No.
05:53Was it George Rodgers?
05:56Well, George came in as a free agent, right?
05:58Stallion?
05:59Jeff, anybody know?
06:01It's like, I saw this graphic, but I forgot the name already.
06:04And I think that kind of is the moral of the story here.
06:07The last time Washington drafted a running back in the first round.
06:11Jeffrey?
06:11Any idea?
06:13Not at all.
06:15B, I don't even think you were alive.
06:17Well, damn.
06:201967.
06:21I wasn't.
06:22They drafted a fellow by the name of Ray McDonald.
06:25And I don't want to besmirch Ray McDonald's career,
06:31but I'm not familiar with his work.
06:33Yeah.
06:34I can say that.
06:36I don't know that the Jeremiah Love thing's going to happen.
06:43I think you can make a real...
06:44It's very possible it won't.
06:47I think Jeremiah Love in this draft,
06:50although one thing I'm glad I missed a week of,
06:52is this Ty Simpson buzz nonsense?
06:55We didn't...
06:55I don't think we mentioned Ty Simpson name one time.
06:59Doug, did somebody say Arizona's looking at him at three?
07:03Jump off a bridge.
07:05Are you kidding me?
07:06Take him.
07:07How good has Arizona been drafting quarterbacks?
07:12Think about that.
07:15The last two they drafted in the first round,
07:17not on their team anymore.
07:19Am I right?
07:20We're going to get some answers about the NFL draft.
07:22Nick Baumgartner from The Athletic joins us next.
07:25Nobody go anywhere.
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