00:00All right. Here's my question that I want to ask all of you as we are now within, you know,
00:06roughly 36 hours from the draft.
00:09And we've talked a lot about players. We've talked about preferences. We've talked about, you know, either ors.
00:16The draft question of the day is in year three of Adam Peters as the general manager with this, you
00:24know, revamped front office from 2024.
00:28Do you trust them? Because I sense that some of you really don't, especially when it comes to the draft.
00:36You know, we'll talk about the draft in a moment. I think 2024, they did a phenomenal job, you know,
00:42in free agency and with the draft.
00:45Obviously, they got Jaden Daniels right. Johnny Newton was drafted high, I think, a little bit lower than than projected.
00:53And he was coming off an injury in that final year at Illinois. But, you know, the jury's still out
00:59on him.
01:00Sandra still had a great rookie year, a step back year last year. Clearly, Brandon Coleman was a big deal
01:06during that rookie season.
01:09But, you know, I thought he did a good job in free agency in 2024.
01:14Luvu, Wagner, Ertz, Eckler, Biotish, Armstrong, Zaccheaus, Fowler Jr., McNichols.
01:21You know, the trading of Jahan Dotson to pick up a pick to the Eagles.
01:28Chin, Nick Ballor, Noah Ai.
01:32You know, those were good moves. Yes, Jaden Daniels was the key to 12-5 and two postseason wins on
01:40the road.
01:41Without him, none of that happens. We all understand that.
01:44But the supporting cast, while not great, it was functional, more than functional, and it fit.
01:53I mean, Luvu had a really good season. Wagner had a really good season.
01:56They were both second-team All-Pros.
02:01Ertz really stepped up after having some injury-plagued seasons.
02:05They were a dynamic team, even more so, with Austin Eckler on the field.
02:11They had a solid slot, you know, answer with Zaccheaus and then Crowder later in the year.
02:18How about just the signing of a backup quarterback who could help out,
02:22which he did in that Carolina game when Jaden got hurt?
02:28What was bad about that first year, the Lattimore trade, all right?
02:32Clearly, in the moment, though, I didn't mind it.
02:35I thought it was a decent-sized swing, and I was all for it.
02:40They had a chance at that moment to be a two-seed in the NFC playoffs.
02:45Detroit was kind of the front-runner for the one-seed,
02:48but they were in a battle with Philadelphia and the NFC East,
02:51and they had a chance to be a two-seed.
02:53And the Lattimore deal was a deal that was not a rental.
02:59I mean, it turned out to be a year-and-a-half rental or just barely over a year rental.
03:03And with the injuries, we got very little out of them.
03:06It was a bad trade in hindsight.
03:09In the moment, I didn't mind it.
03:11The kicker situation got messed up, you know, from Matt Gay to McManus
03:18to all the different, you know, different guys that they were hoping for.
03:23McManus was the one, but I think they did the right thing given the organization's history.
03:28They didn't have all of the information, but it was a tough spot for them to be in.
03:34You know, and then in 2025, there's no one that can say at this point
03:40that the Tunsil trade was not a home run, because it was.
03:45Wise, Kinlaw, Debo, Jacob Martin, Will Harris.
03:50And the draft produced.
03:52It was short on players, but Connerly produced.
03:55Amos produced before he got hurt.
03:57Jalen Lane produced as a punt returner.
04:00And Ja'Cory Krosky Merritt produced as a rookie running back.
04:04He rushed for 805 yards and eight touchdowns.
04:10I do sense, though, that there is a lot of distrust of this front office.
04:17There was a bit of, after that first year, you know,
04:23I'm not going to say that they were chesty,
04:25but there was a feeling of, yeah, we got our group.
04:30They know what they're doing.
04:31And I think they felt themselves a little bit, too.
04:34No doubt about it.
04:34It's fine.
04:36Injuries will bring you back down to earth
04:40when you have a season like you had last year.
04:42You can't survive that in the NFL.
04:46I have not lost any trust.
04:48I was benefit of the doubt going in to 2024
04:53because for the first time in a quarter century,
04:58there was an opportunity to allow benefit of the doubt.
05:03No one had earned during the Snyder years any benefit of the doubt.
05:07And we never gave it.
05:09We knew it would turn out poorly.
05:12As long as he was the owner, it was not going to work.
05:15We had to suspend reality to have conversations about the football team.
05:20The reality being they were never going to win
05:23as long as Dan Snyder owned the team.
05:25It was never going to work out for them.
05:28It was a train wreck from the top down.
05:31So when he sold and we had new ownership
05:36and they got the top GM candidate on the market,
05:40benefit of the doubt.
05:42And I see no reason to continue to give it.
05:46I have not had an issue here with the first two off seasons.
05:51I really haven't.
05:53Last year would not have been the year it was
05:56without the catastrophic injury run.
06:00What would they have been without all those injuries?
06:03I think I would have said much better early in the season
06:08if they had confronted the injury situation.
06:12But after the season was over, I think defensively they were going to be pretty bad.
06:16That's the one side of the football that just wasn't addressed enough.
06:22Yeah, they had traded for Lattimore.
06:25Yeah, they thought that coming off a full offseason, he had a chance.
06:29Yes, they added Kinlaw.
06:31And they turned out to be right about Kinlaw.
06:33Kinlaw had a good season.
06:35Wise was significant to what they were trying to do
06:38as a run-stopping team because they were terrible against the run in 24.
06:44Do you trust Adam Peters and company to handle this draft?
06:51They've had two of them.
06:52You know what my thoughts are on draft evaluation.
06:57It's tough until you have three years of data.
07:02It's really hard.
07:03If you wanted to, you know, declare something about the 24 class after 24,
07:10you would have said, okay, home run quarterback,
07:14home run cornerback in Mikey Sanders still,
07:17home run offensive lineman in Brandon Coleman.
07:21You know, and then Jordan McGee, they really like, but he's been injured
07:25and there hasn't been an opportunity because of Wagner.
07:27And McCaffrey's giving you some moments and Newton's giving you, you know,
07:32some moments, but there's some promise there with the other players.
07:36Sinnott, we weren't sure about, and we're still not sure about.
07:39Although some of you are pretty sure about.
07:43And if you're going to look at this past class,
07:46you got a starting right tackle.
07:48You got a starting corner.
07:50Based on year one, I'd still give it three years before we know for sure.
07:54You got a really, really good punt returner, worst case in the fourth round.
08:00And you may have gotten your starting running back for the next few years.
08:06301-230-0980, 301-230-0980.
08:12In year three of Adam Peters in the new front office, Lance Newmark, et cetera,
08:17do you trust the front office?
08:20Do you trust Adam Peters to nail this draft?
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