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00:00You can always do that.
00:01Adam Peters has been making the rounds nationally with the media,
00:06sat down with NFL Network a few days ago,
00:09and Peters, discussing his new wide receiver Antonio Williams,
00:13had this to say.
00:14Yeah, Antonio, like you said, Tom,
00:16I think we were really fortunate to have him in the third round, too.
00:19I thought he was going to be a second-round pick like you,
00:21and I think a little bit of that is because he played really through an injury
00:26all of his 2025 season,
00:28but if you go back to his 2024 season, he was extremely productive,
00:32and really he's a guy who we look at as a Z and an F,
00:38so he can play outside and inside,
00:40and his speed, his play speed, his route running, I think,
00:43is elite for a college player,
00:45so he's a guy who can come in and play right away.
00:48He runs NFL routes.
00:49He can beat man coverage, and he can win on the outside.
00:52He's almost six feet, and he's really fast,
00:55so he can play on the outside.
00:57He can win with his route running.
00:58He's got really good hands.
01:00He can run after the catch, as you see there,
01:02and he's a really willing blocker, too,
01:04so we were thrilled to get him.
01:06We had him in on a 30 visit.
01:07We really enjoyed that and got to know him a little bit better,
01:10and he's got a chip on his shoulder, too,
01:12because he didn't expect to be there at 71,
01:15so he's coming in with a chip on his shoulder,
01:18which we like, and we're really happy to have him.
01:21It's just interesting to keep hearing them talk about what they see in Antonio Williams.
01:26Yep.
01:27When he says he didn't expect to be there at 71.
01:30I didn't either, for the record.
01:32I thought he'd be gone earlier.
01:34You didn't think so?
01:35I thought that was about where he was going to go.
01:37Okay.
01:37I mean, I don't know.
01:39I didn't pay a ton of attention to him, to be honest,
01:41just because I didn't think they'd be drafting what I perceived to have been a slot receiver,
01:45which brings me back to the larger point where, again, he's saying he can win on the outside.
01:49You know, he's got the hands after the catch, willing blocker,
01:52an elite route runner, one of the best in America.
01:55I feel like the pick has grown on me,
01:59and I am absolutely listening to what they're saying and taking it in and going,
02:05all right, I'm good with this.
02:08You guys picked your receiver.
02:09That's what you should.
02:10I wanted a receiver.
02:11I didn't care which one.
02:12You picked the one you wanted.
02:13Wasn't the aisle I would have shopped on, but no problem.
02:17This guy's film in 24 is a lot better than 25 to me,
02:20and Adam Peters says the same there.
02:22But I guess here's what I'm getting at.
02:24It does feel like this is a big one for Peters, doesn't it?
02:28Yes.
02:28You drafted Luke McCaffrey in the top 100.
02:31You drafted Jalen Lane in the fourth round.
02:34Now, you've essentially missed on both of those.
02:36I think the jury's still out.
02:37It's too early, but neither has had the start as a wide receiver.
02:41That would be a trajectory that makes you think they're going to be really good.
02:45This is a lot different.
02:47This is top 75.
02:48This is early third round.
02:50This is a guy you're saying that shouldn't have been there.
02:52So you're saying basically you had him as a second round player.
02:55You're saying he can play inside and outside when a lot of people are saying inside only.
02:59You're saying he's the best route runner, that he can help you right away.
03:02He's going to play and compete right away.
03:04Now, he can beat man coverage.
03:05These are big comments.
03:07Yes.
03:08I think when you draft three receivers, like you got to hit.
03:11This one feels big for Peter.
03:13I agree on that.
03:14And a couple of the things I want to throw at you.
03:17The idea that's kind of come about over the last couple of years about the quote unquote consensus board mattering.
03:24Now, it doesn't matter at all, but it's just interesting to do that.
03:28I've heard San Francisco and their brass talk about the consensus board, and they don't care about the consensus board.
03:34They go off the map.
03:35They think they know better than everybody else, and it's blown up in their face multiple times over.
03:39Nobody will care where someone was drafted.
03:41See, Terry McLaurin years ago, when you produce, it doesn't matter if he's a third rounder anymore.
03:46It's like, oh, what a great find.
03:47If everyone had known he was this good, he would have gone on the first round, and so on and
03:50so forth.
03:51But what I want to know is, do other people have that same evaluation?
03:57In other words, I think most of the league goes, yeah, slot receiver.
04:00And nothing wrong with that.
04:01I like the player.
04:02I like him as a slot receiver.
04:03They're going, ah, you don't know.
04:05Slot receiver plus outside, plus willing blocker, plus these things.
04:09They didn't do all that much at Clemson, because he was a slot guy at Clemson, but he'll do it
04:14up here.
04:16If you're going out on a limb, you're now doing what Rivera did with Jamon Davis.
04:20You're doing what Rivera did with Emmanuel Forbes.
04:22You're doing what Rivera did a million times over with Fedarian Mathis and a million other guys that simply could
04:27not play,
04:28but you thought you knew better than everybody else.
04:30Yeah, I'm now willing to sit here and say, I think Williams is going to be really good.
04:34And I think he's going to be their wide receiver, too.
04:36You asked Slasher Rainey from the Rooster Radio Network on the Beltway Blitz, basically, who's their number two receiver?
04:42And I think there's a chance Antonio Williams is the guy that catches the second-most passes for the second
04:49-most yards and the second-most targets.
04:50Percentage chance of that.
04:5350?
04:53Yeah.
04:54You know, I think it's pretty good.
04:55I mean, the conversations that I've had, I think he's going to be on the field when they have two
05:02receivers on the field.
05:03And it's him and McLaurin.
05:04Like, I think that's what they think.
05:06This is not a slot guy.
05:07This is a Z and a slot.
05:09And so when they are in 12 and 13, yeah, there's going to be Terry and tight ends, whatever.
05:15But when you get your second receiver only out there, it's him.
05:17You get three receivers, you kick them inside.
05:18I think that's how they're going to operate.
05:20I think there's going to be a lot of times where they're designing and feeding them the football.
05:23I think David Blau probably stood on the table for this guy and said, this is my dude.
05:27This is the weapon I want.
05:28This unlocks our offense.
05:29Let me cook with this guy.
05:31So I am warming to all of those things.
05:36But you've got to hit on one of these receivers, man.
05:38This is the third wide receiver they've taken.
05:41And it's not like they've taken him in the seventh round.
05:43Luke McCaffrey was a reach probably when they took him.
05:47Now, in hindsight, looking back, and with hindsight having become wisdom on that.
05:52But that's a top 100 pick.
05:54Yep.
05:55Jalen Lane was a fourth rounder.
05:56I don't think he should have huge expectations for a fourth rounder.
05:59He did have two punt return touchdowns.
06:01He's a good little football player.
06:03I loved him in camp.
06:03I still think there's a lot of juice there.
06:06But at the same time, Danny, there are guys every year in this league to get drafted in the fourth
06:09round at that position.
06:10Yes.
06:10That flourish.
06:11Like, they need to hit on Antonio Williams.
06:14And I think based on everything being said after, to your point, where they're going, we like him more.
06:22We see this.
06:23Whenever you're zigging when everyone else is zagging, it just makes it a little bit more interesting.
06:29And it puts a little more pressure on you to be right.
06:31Yeah, so we talk about this with drafts all the time.
06:34I mean, the entire Major League Baseball missed on, the entire Major League Baseball, rather, missed on Mike Trout.
06:39So, faulting one GM over another, I don't do that.
06:42If everybody missed, right?
06:43The consensus has somebody going one way, and they're like, wouldn't you know if this sixth-router Tom Brady was
06:48really, really good, blah, blah, blah.
06:49We know the story.
06:50But when you stick a flag in the ground, they're all wrong and I'm right, now you've got that eyeball
06:56emoji.
06:57Everybody's looking.
06:58Now I'm looking.
06:58Is that happening here?
07:00And that's what I don't know.
07:01I don't think so.
07:02Well, because he...
07:03Do you have a good feeling for that?
07:04No, I have no clue.
07:05But he basically went where a lot of mocks had him going.
07:08He was going to go in the, I don't know, the 55 to 75 range or whatever, and he went
07:13like the lower portion of it.
07:16But, and I'm making those numbers up, but that's kind of where you saw him, was like, you do enough
07:20of these Sims, he's going late second, he's going early third, he's going mid-second.
07:24I don't know.
07:25It's not like they got Makai Lemon at 71, or they took some sixth or seventh-round wide receiver from
07:33a directional Michigan in the top 75.
07:38This is about right.
07:39A lot of people we've had on have said, yeah, this is about the range I thought he would go
07:42in.
07:42And didn't necessarily think he'd be Washington's guy, but he obviously became that guy.
07:46I think some of that is we don't know what the offense is going to look like with David Blau,
07:50and maybe we didn't account for that enough.
07:54But this could go one of two ways, I think.
07:57If he is who they think he is, then it's a huge victory for Adam Peters.
08:02It's a game-changer for David Blau.
08:04Now, it's a significant feather in the cap for Jaden Daniels' development.
08:09And all of your concerns and people in your camp that are screaming about not doing enough at wide receiver,
08:14that quells a lot of that.
08:15I will eat that crow happily.
08:17The flip side of that is, if you get that slow start, if we're at camp and we're going, this
08:23happens all the time.
08:23I mean, just look back to McCaffrey or Lane or whoever, and you're like, where is it?
08:28Like, where's the thing that you promised me?
08:31How many of those do you get to do?
08:33It's not that common that a team takes a wide receiver in the top 125 or whatever, 110, like three
08:39years in a row.
08:40And if he's not the guy this season, they'll have very little to show for it.
08:44Totally.
08:45And it leads you to have to pay huge money to hear McLaurin.
08:47All of a sudden, you and I have operated under the, hey, there's a chance this is his last year,
08:52and then maybe it's not now because you have no alternative.
08:54Nobody's emerged from that primordial soup.
08:56It's more Traylon Burks and Van Jefferson and Ja'Cory Brooks and Jacoby Jones and a bunch of Jags that
09:02are readily available.
09:03I'm sure that this isn't true.
09:05I wonder.
09:06But, like, so Jalen Lane was 128 overall, fourth round.
09:10How many teams in the last three years have drafted three wide receivers in the top 130?
09:15It can't be that many.
09:17Like, I'm thinking Washington could be the only one, but I'm sure there are others.
09:20But what do you think?
09:21Like, two teams, five teams, seven teams?
09:22You know, they stick it to their board, best player available, who cares?
09:26It's definitely less than 10 teams.
09:27Yeah.
09:29But I think your point stands that this needs to be right.
09:31There's a million reasons why.
09:33One, draft record.
09:34Two, Jaden Daniels, year three, new offense.
09:38Oh, my God.
09:39Right?
09:39A giant void that they wanted to fill by spending 30 million bucks on Alec Pierce.
09:43They went, we're not doing, and I give them credit for this.
09:47It is correct.
09:47We are not doing the Noah Brown thing again.
09:49We're not doing the leftover jag that somebody else throws away that's going to come in and
09:54be our second option.
09:54We're not doing that crap anymore.
09:56It's an arms race, and we're losing it.
09:58They wanted to address the position.
10:00This is how they chose to do it.
10:01They didn't get involved in the trade for Michael Pittman that the Steelers heisted the
10:04Colts on.
10:05Would have loved to have been involved in that, by the way.
10:07But they decided this was our fix.
10:09Problem solved.
10:10And if it's not, that's a bigger issue than, oh, you missed on another receiver.
10:14To me, it is.
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