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What grade would you give the Commanders' picks, all things considered? G&D give their report card here.
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00:00He did a 30 visit with the Commanders back in mid-March
00:04and clearly left an impression on Adam Peters.
00:07Ethan Kaliak-Manus, round 7, 223 overall,
00:11to be the long-term backup quarterback, possibly.
00:14Certainly, in the near future, you'd start him on the practice squad,
00:18and then maybe he could transition eventually into a QB3-type role.
00:22This is your Sam Hartman.
00:23So if you are Sam Hartman, you're very handsome.
00:27Just keep looking in the mirror.
00:29Your hair looks amazing, but your days could be numbered.
00:32There's now writing on the wall that you should feel free to read at some point.
00:36The reaction to the pick of Kaliak-Manus was weird to me,
00:39and I guess it shouldn't be because I know we live in a world where if you go,
00:43damn, Caleb Williams just made a nice throw.
00:45You get 100 people screaming at you about how you're not supposed to do that,
00:49and Jaden Daniels is good too, and it's like...
00:53I was just watching the Bears-Packers game on Thursday night.
00:56There's a different game on.
00:56Caleb Williams had nothing to do with anything.
00:59Is that okay?
00:59So any kind of comment about any other quarterback is taken as a personal affront
01:04to our Lord and Savior, Jaden Daniels.
01:07That's the way the fan base operates, and I totally understand that as well.
01:10It should be.
01:11You guys have a franchise quarterback.
01:12We now in this city have the thing that we've been waiting for for decades and decades,
01:16and that's awesome.
01:19But it seems to me like people took this as some kind of shot at Jaden.
01:23It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:24This is a guy who is...
01:26What do you want out of your third quarterback?
01:28You want good vibes, and you want someone who's going to be great in the room.
01:32And to me, just based on the Zoom that he did with the local media, of which I sat in
01:36on him for a minute,
01:38he was the ultimate vibes guy, high energy, like beaver cleaver, just I want to go hang out with this
01:44dude
01:44and talk to him about life.
01:46Like, that's how he came off to me.
01:48I don't know if he can play any football.
01:49He doesn't seem to have a big arm.
01:51He had 20 touchdowns and 7 picks and threw for 3,100 yards last year, about 260 yards per game.
01:56I think when you're looking for a third quarterback, see Sam Hartman,
01:59you want a guy that's going to be great in the room, that can answer all the questions,
02:02that's terrific between the ears, and who can provide some positive vibes,
02:05and I think he can do all those things.
02:07Yeah, I think you could have had him as an undrafted free agent, too.
02:10It's not something I would do.
02:11I would just go grab the next safety on my board to try to run kickoffs,
02:15or cover kickoffs, rather, or cover punts, find my next Jeremy Reeves.
02:19But that's the point.
02:20That's all he is.
02:21Yeah, this is, you know that meme where it's like the guy versus the guy she told you not to
02:24worry about?
02:25This really is the guy you don't worry about if you're a Jaden Daniels fan, which I am.
02:28Please don't be afraid.
02:29This is not a threat.
02:30This is nothing.
02:31He seems like a really good kid.
02:33By the way, be happy that they didn't draft Garrett Nussmeyer,
02:35and I'm not suggesting that he would, or anyone in this draft, would push Jaden Daniels at all.
02:40But they didn't even do the thing at pick 223 they could have done,
02:43where they got a guy in the seventh round who was like the starter at LSU after Jaden,
02:47who a lot of people thought was going to be a first or second round pick before a terrible season.
02:52They took a guy who was non-threatening.
02:54He is here to have the earpiece in in preseason games,
02:58and to sit down next to you when you've got the Microsoft Surface,
03:01and say nice stuff.
03:03During the week, he'll get the coffee.
03:04He comes to the meeting room.
03:06He's got notes that he'll share with you.
03:07You can look off his paper if you want.
03:09But again, the best thing I can say about him as a football player is he seems like a great
03:13dude.
03:14Did you watch the Dolphins' season on Hard Knocks?
03:19Yeah.
03:20That one stands out to me for this reason.
03:22With Philbin years ago?
03:23No, no, no, no.
03:24Way more recently.
03:25Would have been Mike McDaniel.
03:26Oh, the most recent.
03:27So, Tua's quarterback room.
03:29It was Tua and Mike White, and there was some other guy.
03:33I don't remember who it was.
03:34I think it was a veteran.
03:35But it was the best quarterback room ever, and you could just tell.
03:37Like, it was non-threatening.
03:39No one's looking over their shoulder.
03:40You need a little bit of that.
03:41You need a backup who can come in and help you see Marcus Mariota,
03:44but that never threatens the quarterbacks, so the dynamic isn't weird.
03:47That was the problem with Griffin and Cousins,
03:49and there have been others like that, right?
03:52I think this is actually ideal.
03:54Like, he's going to be the guy that gives the great presents
03:56on the day where they do the Secret Santa gift exchange on Hard Knocks.
04:00It's like, let's see what Ethan Kaliuk-Manus is giving the guys.
04:03Oh, what a thoughtful gift.
04:04We all got these new fishing poles, or whatever it is.
04:07You know what I'm saying?
04:08The book on him is he sees coverage as well, pre- and post-snap,
04:11layers throws pretty well.
04:13Not much of an athlete, I'll say.
04:155.37 RAS out of a possible 10,
04:18which ranked 523rd out of about 1,100 quarterbacks since 87.
04:23So right smack dab in the middle.
04:24Basically, this is a pocket passer,
04:26not going to do a whole lot with his legs,
04:28not a big-time arm.
04:29I'm with you in that waste of a pick is strong,
04:33but this is not what I would ever do.
04:37It's not quite the same as drafting a long snapper.
04:40But when you get to your third quarterback,
04:43the ship is already running around.
04:44Yeah, the plane has crashed into the mountain.
04:46And there's always a Josh Johnson you can have on speed dial.
04:49And that's what they do instead.
04:50That's always our point.
04:52Screaming at the Chris Russells of the world,
04:54who's screaming about Zach Sudfeld,
04:56you had to keep him.
04:57You're looking for Nate Sudfeld.
04:58Nate Sudfeld, excuse me.
04:59I just saw Zach on my draft board right there.
05:01Apologies.
05:02You can't have to keep Nate Sudfeld.
05:03No, you don't.
05:04He'll never play.
05:04They'll bring in some dude off the street.
05:06You know, Baker Mayfield on two days rest years ago
05:09came in and did that for the Rams
05:10rather than play the number they had in the building.
05:12It's not essential.
05:13You do that for, again, as you said,
05:15the word is vibes.
05:17You do it for vibes.
05:18You do it for get along.
05:19You do it for camaraderie.
05:20You do it for, you know,
05:22all those behind the scenes things
05:23that most fans, frankly, don't care that much about.
05:25I just want to see the team win on Sundays.
05:26But that's the point of that.
05:28It's, I think you can always find one.
05:30You could have found that dude
05:30as an undrafted free agent.
05:31You could have found that any of 15 guys
05:33at any point in time
05:35to be your third string Theodore.
05:36I would have just, you know,
05:38gone UDFA, the Falcons, Jack Strand,
05:41the Ravens, Joe Fagnano.
05:45Like, it does not matter.
05:46Name a guy.
05:47I don't want anything to do with Diego Pavia.
05:49No interest.
05:50Zero.
05:51Less than zero.
05:52I don't want him in my quarterback room.
05:54Having said that,
05:55name another quarterback,
05:56Haynes King or Miller Moss
05:58or, you know, Luke Altmeyer
06:01or whoever else signed a UDFA.
06:03Joey Aguilar.
06:04Any one of them.
06:04Put him in a blender.
06:05Does not matter.
06:06Are the vibes high?
06:07Are the vibes good?
06:08Are the vibes high?
06:09But what I heard was
06:10that this guy just was,
06:11they were smitten.
06:12They were enamored with him
06:14like as a personality.
06:15And it's like,
06:16this is a guy we want around
06:17for our culture,
06:18for our building.
06:20And you fast forward to the draft
06:22and boom goes the dynamite.
06:23They also brought him in
06:24for a 30 visit.
06:25So somewhere along the lines,
06:26they were intrigued.
06:27Was that the original meeting
06:28they had with him?
06:29When they talked to him,
06:30was that a scout getting to know him
06:31a little bit?
06:31Was it the tape that they actually said?
06:33We really like this.
06:34You know,
06:35when Logan studied the tape,
06:36he's like,
06:37his good is actually really good.
06:38He says,
06:39when you watch all of his completions,
06:40he saw a cut up of like every completion.
06:42He's like,
06:43damn,
06:43this is like a third round pick.
06:44And then he's like,
06:45well,
06:45I'm just watching the completions.
06:46Let's watch the other stuff.
06:47And then he watched everything else
06:49and he's like,
06:49okay,
06:50now it all makes sense.
06:51Well,
06:51up until his senior year,
06:53that was basically 47% of the throws.
06:55We're incompletions.
06:56Right.
06:57In this day and age,
06:58hard to do.
06:58Yeah.
06:59I mean,
06:59I don't know anything about the offense.
07:00I don't know about the weaponry
07:01or anything like that.
07:02So I,
07:02I try not to ding him too much
07:04just on the numbers,
07:04like as a blind football card.
07:09But I will say when I watched him,
07:12I keep coming back to,
07:13I don't see the arm that you want
07:15making the throws in the NFL,
07:16but he can layer and touch pass
07:19down the field.
07:19Like he does drop some balls
07:21in the bucket,
07:22but that does not matter.
07:23Okay.
07:24We don't need to do any more on that.
07:25And everyone just take a deep breath.
07:28Did you see the reaction?
07:29Like people were so upset.
07:30I don't know if they were upset
07:31for the same reason you and I
07:32were kind of annoyed
07:34because it's like,
07:34this is a waste of a pick.
07:36It did seem like there was a lot of
07:37like the Jaden Stan,
07:39like how dare you have another
07:41quarterback who's not 40.
07:42I think there was a little bit of that too.
07:44So I didn't see as much of that.
07:46I just saw the like,
07:47what are we doing?
07:47What is the point of that?
07:48Cause that's,
07:49that's the team I'm on.
07:50That I can get behind.
07:51What's the point of that?
07:52Again,
07:52I would,
07:53and if you cut the seventh rounder,
07:54it doesn't matter.
07:55Right.
07:55But like,
07:56I would rather have another 230 pound guy
07:58that's going to run down on kickoffs
07:59and maybe he stands out.
08:00Maybe he doesn't.
08:01Maybe he's a free agent
08:02bouncing around 15 different teams.
08:04Who knows?
08:04But I would always do that
08:06over whatever this is.
08:06I think you can always find this.
08:08So first blush,
08:09I'm giving Styles an A plus.
08:12Here, here.
08:13I echo that.
08:14A plus for me as well.
08:14I'm giving Antonio Williams
08:16a B minus.
08:20C plus there for me.
08:21No, that's not fair.
08:22B minus.
08:23I'm right.
08:23I'm right there with you.
08:24I'm giving Joshua Josephs
08:25a solid A.
08:26That's an A for me too.
08:28Value wise.
08:28I'm giving Katron Allen an A.
08:31B plus.
08:32I'm giving Matt Golbin
08:35a B.
08:37Yeah.
08:38I honestly don't know enough.
08:39Like whether that's great value or not.
08:40I've just gone on the prognostication
08:41where it's,
08:42hey,
08:42he should have been available there.
08:43Yeah.
08:44So I guess it's kind of the same deal for me.
08:45B.
08:45And then I'll give the eighth
08:47in Caliamakis move.
08:49Again,
08:49it's just not something I would have done.
08:51I'll give that a D plus, C minus.
08:54Yeah, that's an F for me.
08:55I just don't do that.
08:56Whatever that is,
08:57I don't do.
08:57But six players,
08:58seven rounds,
08:59didn't move around.
09:00And I think they got four guys
09:02that are going to help them this season,
09:03which is more than they've gotten
09:05in any draft to this point,
09:06really.
09:06If it goes the way I think.
09:07I think Stiles and Williams
09:09are immediate starters
09:10and high impact guys.
09:12And then I think Josh Joseph's
09:13in a rotation at edge
09:14and K-Tron Allen
09:15in a rotation at running back.
09:17Both help them.
09:18Goldman should be on the P squad.
09:21Caliamakis,
09:22whatever,
09:23he'll be on the P squad.
09:24But I think you got
09:25two immediate starters,
09:27four contributors this fall,
09:28and then the other two guys
09:30are more projects.
09:32In summation,
09:33so you've got
09:34Gobin and
09:35Caliamakis as
09:37I'm not going to say
09:37I'm not going to be able
09:38to say his name.
09:39Calia,
09:39Calia,
09:39Calia,
09:40Calia,
09:41Calia,
09:41Calia,
09:41Calia,
09:41whatever,
09:42practice squad type guys.
09:43The other four guys,
09:44how,
09:44how soon do you envision
09:45Joseph's and Allen
09:46contributing?
09:47I think Allen's right away.
09:48I don't know about Joseph's right away.
09:49Do you think Joseph's right away?
09:50I think so.
09:51Yeah.
09:51I mean,
09:52there's no reason
09:52if he's active
09:54that he shouldn't be part
09:55of a rotation,
09:56stopping the run,
09:57helping out with his length.
09:59You know,
10:00the edge position's loaded
10:01because they've got,
10:02they brought in O.A.,
10:03they have Chase on,
10:05you know,
10:05they brought in a Menehu,
10:07they still have...
10:09Dorrance Armstrong.
10:10I mentioned him.
10:13Who are we missing?
10:14That's the four.
10:14Okay,
10:15there you go.
10:17So that's why I said
10:18I didn't envision him
10:18helping right away.
10:19I think that was more
10:19of a we can wait a little.
10:21Yeah.
10:21They can wait.
10:22There's no rush.
10:24I think he's good,
10:24though.
10:24I think he can play.
10:25So I actually think
10:27he gets on the field
10:27pretty soon.
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