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How much do listeners like Washington's pick at No. 7? Did the Commanders get it right?
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00:00And for a team that needed to get younger, faster, stronger, they sure did that.
00:03We'll see what shakes out, right?
00:05Chennault's never been in a real every-down role or like a 70%, 80% of snaps role,
00:11but we'll see if he's ready for it.
00:12Obviously, it's another step for Stiles,
00:14but he's continued to ascend throughout his four seasons in Columbus.
00:22Unfortunately, this is not the first linebacker drafted in the first round
00:28over the last five years.
00:30You know, Washington famously took Jamin Davis in the first round.
00:35Ron had a really bad track record of draft evaluations,
00:40especially Ron and the Martys and whoever you want to blame, right?
00:42But Davis got drafted in 21, 19th overall,
00:48so definitely not the same kind of evaluation of him and consensus of Jamin,
00:55but, you know, it is fair to point out that they did try a linebacker just five years ago.
01:01Jamin was a different player, but...
01:02Different player, different groups, I think is...
01:05When you look at Jamin coming in, there were way more questions than...
01:09Totally.
01:09Let's be real.
01:10Ron told us to point to when Jamin played against Pitts.
01:14Right.
01:15Pitts had two or three touchdowns in that game.
01:17Over 100 yards.
01:18And that's the guy he drafted, so it's a different whole approach of this thing, I think.
01:26800-636-1067.
01:28800-636-1067.
01:30What do you think about the Sonny Stiles pick?
01:32Let's go to Recy in St. Mary's.
01:36What's up, fellas?
01:37What's up, man?
01:37What's up, dude?
01:38I ain't nothing.
01:40This was the best pick in the draft, and I'm going to tell you why.
01:44He can play safety.
01:45He can play linebacker.
01:47He can play defensive end, and he's fast enough to do it all.
01:50This is going to be the best thing.
01:52It's better than Parsons.
01:53Watch what I tell you, because he's going to be a hybrid.
01:56He's going to be the best coaches that's going to make him a hybrid.
01:58He's going to be all over the field doing everything, and nobody's going to be.
02:03I guarantee you, he's going to win rookie of the year, but not only that, he's going
02:06to be all over the field because you can move him to safety.
02:09You can move him down.
02:10You can bridge him off the end.
02:11So when they talk about Reese, yeah, Reese's good.
02:13I'm not going to shade him from Reese, but a whole full package and his speed and body
02:18style, he's going to be the best thing in this draft.
02:21But next year, he's going to be rookie of the year.
02:24Thank you for taking my call.
02:25All right, bro.
02:26Some optimism in that call.
02:29Listen, today's not a day to calm anybody down.
02:33What did Coach Thompson always say?
02:36I'd rather calm a fool than resurrect the corpse.
02:39So today is the day for excitement.
02:41I'd probably chill with Micah Parsons' comparisons, but people should do what they want.
02:45Today is your day.
02:47We'll take another one.
02:49Jay is in Delaware.
02:50Jay, what's up, man?
02:51What do you think of the Sonny Stiles pick?
02:54Hey, good morning, guys.
02:55I think Sonny Stiles was a good pick.
02:58You know, we got a ferocious, relentless off-ball linebacker, probably the best in the draft.
03:02He's going to come in and make an impact.
03:04Day one, I feel like.
03:05Just a good overall linebacker, 6'5", 244.
03:08I mean, we basically drafted a sideboard.
03:11Yeah.
03:12Good call, man.
03:13All right, bro.
03:13Thank you, dude.
03:15B, the other thing.
03:16Cyborg.
03:20Like, Sonny Stiles is only 21.
03:22He'll turn 22 Thanksgiving.
03:25Like, we could very well be in Dallas on Thanksgiving Day and Sonny Stiles playing football on his 22nd birthday.
03:32So this is a very young play.
03:33He's ready for it.
03:34He's ready for it.
03:34Yeah, I agree.
03:36But, dude, to me, you and I are married.
03:42White Brian's married.
03:43Like, everybody knows what's supposed to happen on your wedding night.
03:46You're supposed to go pretty well, and you end up enjoying yourself, right?
03:50If things don't go well on your wedding night, it's probably a precursor to a pretty bad marriage, I would
03:55say.
03:56Or bad planning.
03:57Sure.
03:59People are supposed to be excited today.
04:01They just drafted a kid in the top 10.
04:03You're supposed to be fired up.
04:04And Adam Peters is supposed to say how thrilled he is with the opportunity to take this kid.
04:10Like, this is how it's supposed to work.
04:12And I think, generally, now is the time to be fired up about it.
04:17I want to let the phone lines hit it.
04:20Our guy Mark is in Landover Hills.
04:21Mark, what's up, dude?
04:22Mark, what's up, brother?
04:24Hey, guys.
04:25Top of the day to you.
04:26We should all be happy, like JP just said and like Brian's been saying.
04:30Man, when you guys first started talking about this a couple weeks ago, I was on the style of bandwagon.
04:36But when I called in yesterday, man, I went with downs because I thought there was no way we would
04:41get Sonny.
04:42We got him, man.
04:43So, I am tickled to death.
04:46And I think the whole fan club should be tickled if you want to call them that.
04:52And, hey, man, as far as lanky linebackers being spot on, you know, what about Mr. Jack Lambert?
04:59How about, you know, Ted Hendricks?
05:01How about Mr. Chris Hamburger?
05:04You know, there's been plenty of great lanky guys that were good linebackers, man, that weren't squatted in their physical
05:11stature, man.
05:12Brian's right about that, man.
05:14And he's right about Mel, and he's right about, you know, our man Monty, man.
05:19Very underrated player, too.
05:21Mike was a great player, man.
05:22He played a long time at the high level, man.
05:24Yep.
05:25Thank you for the call, Mark.
05:26Appreciate you.
05:27All right, brother.
05:31I think fans seem fired up about this.
05:35I think for me to not like this pick, again, I've said this.
05:42If you were all in on downs, I get it.
05:44If you were all in on Tyson, I get it.
05:47But to not like this pick based on the pick, I think you're reaching.
05:54Like, I just, if this dude is widely regarded as all of the, like, find me the outlier evaluation that
06:03says, ah, I'm not sure he can make the conversion to the NFL, or, ah, I think he goes 20
06:10to 30.
06:10Like, I'm being serious.
06:11You won't find that.
06:12In the internet age, find that for me.
06:15Tweet it at me.
06:15Text it.
06:16I'll give out Stallion's cell phone number.
06:18You can text it directly to him.
06:19See, that's the thing, Jay.
06:20We're going to, we're getting to these drafts every year.
06:23And we get a certain level of people who pick one guy out and say, we got to get this
06:28guy.
06:29Okay?
06:30And somebody else might take that guy.
06:33Or something may start happening where they go on and run and other things and make the whole draft change
06:38up.
06:40I said time and time again, there are a lot of guys that can draft and I'll be happy.
06:44Styles was on that list.
06:46He's damn sure one of them.
06:47Right.
06:47You know, so, and then what, the thing about it, when you start building a team and you have spots
06:54where you have to fill them, can't fill them all in one time.
06:57Right.
06:58But once you get one, then it makes the next spot easier to fill.
07:02What I have said, for months, you need studs.
07:06You need blue chip players.
07:08You need guys that the opposing teams have to game plan specifically for.
07:15And that's, you know, an offensive coordinator for a pretty good linebacker, a guy that makes tackles, they're not game
07:24planning around that because they believe in their stuff.
07:26But if you have an elite guy, they have to make adjustments.
07:31Washington doesn't have enough of those guys.
07:33And that's what they needed to do.
07:35How about Micah Parsons?
07:36Speaking of Micah Parsons, number eight on the audio sheet, Jeff and Ryan.
07:41Micah Parsons is a guy that knows Dan Quinn well because Dan Quinn kind of tailored his defense to develop
07:48Micah Parsons, who had a unique skill set coming out of Penn State.
07:51And Parsons actually slipped in the draft.
07:53There were some weird questions there.
07:55But Dallas made it work for Micah.
07:58This is Micah talking about Sonny Stiles landing with DQ.
08:02I think this pick makes the most sense knowing Dan Quinn.
08:05He loves a fast, ferocious linebacker.
08:07And I think this is why the Chiefs traded up.
08:10They needed to take the lane from Washington.
08:12Washington was probably going to take the lane if Sonny was still there.
08:17Even if this, that's why they traded up.
08:19Washington's biggest need has been a corner.
08:21They traded for the guy from the Saints.
08:25Marshall Lattimore.
08:25Marshall Lattimore didn't pan out.
08:27This is why the Chiefs traded up.
08:28And Sonny just makes the most sense of this pick.
08:31You know, Dan Quinn, I think, you know, they had Bobby Wagner over the last couple years.
08:35But they needed somebody fast.
08:37With the vision they're in with Saquon.
08:40I think he can develop to a serious linebacker.
08:42A serious linebacker.
08:44Two.
08:44So Louvoo and him is going to be a great tandem.
08:46It's going to be very interesting to see how this guy pans out.
08:53That's arguably, I don't know what you want to call Parsons.
08:56Is he a linebacker?
08:57Is he an edge rusher?
08:58He's a lot of things, right?
08:59He's a joker.
09:01He's a football player, for sure.
09:03Yeah, that's the thing about it.
09:03And some guys are going to be that.
09:05You know, not everybody just do one thing great.
09:08You know, some guys are so good that they can do one thing great.
09:11Then they can do other things, too, that can give them matchup advantages in the game.
09:16I think Sonny has that ability.
09:18But I believe that Dan will want him to get solid where they want him to be first.
09:24But then if you show you can do that, then they'll start adding other stuff to the tool chest.
09:31Absolutely.
09:32I think, can I, just a quick aside here.
09:35How do you feel about Parsons as an active player with such a significant media career as well?
09:43I know you did some radio in Philly.
09:45Yeah, I have no problem with it.
09:46As long as he still does his first job good, do what the hell you want.
09:51But if his first job suffers from it, and he's putting too much work into that, then that's a problem.
09:57But, you know, he got hurt last year.
10:00And him doing media wasn't the reason he got hurt.
10:02But if he come back and play like he's been playing, you have the right to talk.
10:06Guys can control the narrative these days.
10:10Let's go to Ed in Towson.
10:12What's up, Ed?
10:13What do you think of the Styles pick?
10:15Hey, fellas, how you feel?
10:17Doing good, man.
10:17Good, dude.
10:18Well, you know, and Mitch, you got first-hand information, you know.
10:23I like it from a standpoint of, you know, if you look at it, and, you know, he has the
10:28transition.
10:29But in college, you know, when you're crushing it against some of the best in the country,
10:34then I feel pretty good about your transition into the NFL.
10:39I mean, am I right or wrong, Mitch?
10:41I mean, if you put me at work and, like, being a factor with some really good players in the
10:48country,
10:48you got to feel decent about what you're going to do when you get to the NFL.
10:53And I agree with what you mentioned.
10:55You do what he does best right out the gate, and then you start, you know,
11:00moving him around and putting him in passages.
11:02Because I think he has the ability athletically to do a lot of things.
11:05And with defenses right now, you don't know who's playing where.
11:09You might have a defensive lineman drop into a pass route.
11:13So, I think his athletic ability will cause you – he's a hybrid.
11:19Like, you said, you know, he's special.
11:21You come up parking.
11:22He's a hybrid, and I think that's the way they're going to use it.
11:24Y'all be good, man.
11:25Hi, bro.
11:26Appreciate the call, man.
11:27We'll keep these phone lines going.
11:29We're going to keep them going for a while here.
11:31Jaden is in Pennsylvania.
11:32Jaden, what do you think of the pick?
11:35Yeah, hey, guys.
11:36How's it going?
11:36Good.
11:37Good, dude.
11:37How are you?
11:39Good.
11:40I think it's solid.
11:41I do.
11:42You can't say anything bad about it.
11:43Like, it seems to be good.
11:45It seems to be a stud.
11:46The only, I guess, a little bit of pushback, I guess they couldn't do anything about it.
11:51I think the lane would have been the better pick.
11:54I think you have to draft to win your division, right?
11:57So, Dallas has two good receivers.
11:59Eagles have two good receivers.
12:02Giants are going to be offensively, you know, pretty good with neighbors.
12:05So, I think drafting a DB or receiver to help Daniels, because it seems like it's a little bit of
12:10a weapons race in the NFC East,
12:12I think, might have been the better place.
12:14So, I kind of like Tyson at seven.
12:18But, you know, styles is good.
12:19I guess it's just the positional value and how much will that affect wins and losses next year.
12:26I guess would be my question.
12:27He's good.
12:28But, like, if you want to bring up Tyson, I can recognize that conversation.
12:32You want to bring up the lane, their hands were tied.
12:35Kansas City traded up to take him, right?
12:37Like, they couldn't get him because somebody moved ahead of them to take him.
12:40The Tyson thing, if that was a clean prospect, I think it's a much different conversation,
12:49because Tyson's twitchy as hell.
12:50He's explosive.
12:51He's athletic.
12:52I think there's real questions about Jordan Tyson beating press coverage in the NFL, but we'll find out, right?
12:58I just don't think, for me, the Tyson evaluation is so reliant on medicals,
13:07and there's two things that scare me there.
13:10One, he's already blown out a knee.
13:11It cost him a year.
13:12That happened when he was 19 or whatever.
13:14And, sure, guys can overcome that, but sometimes it comes back, right?
13:18Sometimes that knee is fundamentally changed.
13:21And then lingering hammies last year, like, to me, that just gives me pause.
13:26So, I'm not going to say you're wrong.
13:29And, clearly, if you look around the division, Dallas has two stud wide receivers.
13:35We'll see if they have two stud wide receivers by the time we get to week one, but right now
13:38they do.
13:40Were you saying that thing yesterday?
13:42Yeah, but that might make it easier to trade him because then he's under contract,
13:45and then the next team, if they give permission, we'll see, right?
13:49But, to Jerry's credit, a move that I thought was smart, Rap Sheet reported this,
13:54because I've said repeatedly, George Pickens' agent, David Mulligetta,
13:58is one of the top five most powerful NFL agents,
14:00and to just have a bad relationship with him is only bad for your football team.
14:05Apparently, Jerry and Steven, if I had to guess, it was at Steven's behest,
14:10had kind of a conciliatory phone call with Mulligetta and just said,
14:14hey, this is a new negotiation, we'd like to start fresh,
14:16and I think David Mulligetta's smart enough to say, of course, let's try this.
14:20So, maybe that Pickens stuff will work out.
14:22I kind of don't think it will, but Jerry's crazy.
14:25Pickens is crazy.
14:26I don't know.
14:27There's a lot of chips there that I think might be problematic.
14:31But Philly's going to trade A.J. Brown, but they draft him with Kyle Lemon.
14:34Like, I get wanting to add a corner.
14:38I absolutely understand that.
14:40But they did add a defensive piece that could provide something else.
14:45True.
14:45See, I just think, like, we get into these things about what we think,
14:49and I know people said Tyson.
14:52Tyson could be very, very good.
14:54But then I was talking to people last night,
14:57and they were talking about the immaturity aspect of it.
14:59Did the team notice that and say, oh, we don't know about this one?
15:03You know what I'm saying?
15:04Sometimes it's the slightest thing that can make somebody go off of you
15:08and go to somebody else.
15:09Well, and the thing with Tyson is he's got an incredibly high ceiling
15:12if things break right.
15:14But so does Stiles.
15:16Yeah.
15:16Like, if you had taken downs there instead of Tyson,
15:19then the ceiling conversation is a thing.
15:23Stiles' ceiling is arguably the highest of just about any player in this draft.
15:28And if you want to say the positional value at linebacker, I get that.
15:31But you know what could help Washington's corners a lot?
15:35If the middle of the field isn't wide open to tight ends running seam routes.
15:39Damn straight.
15:40Like, that might help things on the back end for everybody.
15:44Yeah.
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