00:00So I got this from Terry D. Terry D wrote me. He wasn't the only one. There were several like
00:08this. And it's an annual tradition to get during OTAs and even during training camp to get a lot of
00:14people who get ginned up on the team.
00:17Um, and it comes from a lot of the reports from the people on the beat, some of the video
00:22clips that come out, some of the things that are said. Terry D writes, Kevin, I know you don't think
00:27much of OTAs, but all the talk last week was really positive.
00:32Chig looked sharp as in a con quo. Deami picked up the chemistry with Jaden from where he left it
00:40off in the playoff game in Detroit. Wow. They're already back to that level of chemistry.
00:47Terry, as in Terry McLaurin in early is already paying off. And the best news yet styles and Williams, that
00:58would be Antonio Williams, Washington's third round pick are ready to play at a high level right now.
01:05I don't think you're going to need time to grade this last draft. I hope you've been following along and
01:14will weigh in when you get back.
01:16Um, thank you for that. I, I don't know if Terry's, I think he might be playing with me. I
01:24think he knows what I think about those that get super pumped up this time of year.
01:29And I think he was just trying to get me, but if he's being serious, I mean, God bless you,
01:37bless your heart, bless your heart, Terry D bless all of your hearts that are really into the play by
01:42play of OTAs.
01:43Look, there's a market for it. I'm not begrudging anybody that disseminates information from OTAs as if it actually means
01:52anything, as I've said for many, many years.
01:55And this seems to be an annual tradition of talking about the reactions to OTAs, the reactions to training camp.
02:04Um, the only thing that really we can take and register and do something with it is information about injuries.
02:16They're real. And by the way, I would also suggest injuries really to high level players, borderline elite level players.
02:25You know, unless you get a rash of injuries, which by the way, the giants have had, have you been
02:30following their situation?
02:31They have lost three players to season ending as in 2026 season, ending non-contact injuries during OTAs, including the
02:41cat that was supposed to replace Dexter Lawrence along their defensive front.
02:45They also went out and signed OBJ Smith Schuster yesterday and Braxton Berrios, three wide receiver signings because Malik neighbors.
02:55Is likely going to be out for a long period of time in 2026.
03:02He had a second surgery.
03:04I feel badly for, uh, him because he was Malik neighbors.
03:10I'm side getting sidetracked here, but I don't want to lose this thought thought Malik neighbors is an elite talent
03:16elite.
03:17We saw it in his second game.
03:20It was his second game, right?
03:22Last year, the first game after the, in 2024, when he caught like double digit balls, but then dropped a
03:29ball in fourth and six in the game in which the giants didn't have Graham Gano when he got hurt
03:33and Washington won with seven field goals.
03:35Uh, that was the second week of the season.
03:37I believe in 2024 anyway, uh, I'm getting sidetracked injuries, trades like the two made yesterday and then big, you
03:47know, late summer or early summer additions to the roster or deletions from the roster.
03:52But usually if somebody gets deleted and it's not an injury, it's because they weren't going to be very good
03:56to begin with, but like a summer roster addition, like a Brandon Iyuk or a Stefan digs.
04:02These are the things that are truly subs, you know, substantive, you know, in terms of this time of year,
04:09occasionally you'll get a piece of information from a coach or a player.
04:13That's why I like listening to these, uh, interviews, these press conferences, because they can sort of, you know, if
04:19you're paying attention, sometimes there will be a tell there.
04:22Sometimes they'll say it directly.
04:24And, you know, certainly there are people, uh, in this town that, uh, get information sometimes that isn't necessarily made
04:32public, but I mean, Terry D, if you're serious, I mean like Antonio Williams, look, you may be right about
04:39Sonny Stiles and Antonio Williams.
04:41You know, you may be right about Terry McLaurin.
04:43You may be right about, that's my favorite one.
04:46Um, Diami and Jaden already, it's clear that they had the chemistry that they had towards the end of the
04:552024 season in the Detroit playoff game.
04:58What did, uh, Diami do?
05:00He had that, you know, he had a, that unbelievable catch over the shoulder that Jaden dropped into the bucket.
05:07Remember that one?
05:09Um, what was his stat line?
05:13He had a very good end of the season.
05:15I do remember that.
05:17I remember that Diami Brown really started to come on towards the end of the season.
05:22He had five catches for 89 yards.
05:24Oh, that's the Tampa game.
05:26Uh, and the Detroit game was 98 yards.
05:32Yeah.
05:33Six for 98.
05:34He had a good post season.
05:36He had in the post season, he had 14 catches for 229 yards, 16.4 yards per catch.
05:43One touchdown, uh, in, uh, in 2024 and definitely his, you know, his productivity picked up towards the end of
05:52that season.
05:54My, what, what I'm going to say to you, Terry, if you're actually being serious is everything you said actually
06:00may come to fruition, but it's not coming to fruition.
06:05It's not coming to fruition, fruition based on what you've read or what you've seen at this time of year.
06:11It just isn't.
06:12Uh, I went back, um, before the show this morning, cause I wanted to just in an effort to kind
06:17of make the point here.
06:19About the NFL is, you know, a 12 month, uh, out of the year sport now.
06:25I mean, we're, we're getting ready to tip the NBA finals tomorrow night.
06:28And the only thing being talked about this morning on any of the morning ESPN shows, uh, is the two
06:36trades.
06:37The NFL just dominates.
06:39We know that I went back and looked at, um, preseason odds for last year.
06:43We've, we've done this before, but I actually took it a step further.
06:46The preseason, the top five preseason favorites last year were Baltimore, Buffalo, Casey, Philly, and Detroit.
06:52All right.
06:53They were the top five favorites to win the Superbowl last year.
06:56Uh, Baltimore, Buffalo, Casey, uh, Philly, and Detroit.
06:59Only one of those five teams made it to the second round of the postseason.
07:03That was Buffalo.
07:04Uh, by the way, they did it in incredible fashion.
07:07I still think that the Buffalo Jacksonville playoff game last year was the best of the
07:13playoff games.
07:14Uh, and Jacksonville would have been a threat had they won that game, um, to win another.
07:20But anyway, uh, I digress.
07:21Those were the top favorites.
07:23Obviously, you know, as much as I rely on the desert, it's much more about a week to week
07:28thing with the boys in Vegas, with the odds makers offshore, that's where they really kind
07:34of hone in on stuff.
07:36The preseason stuff is trying to create a number that creates, you know, equal action.
07:41Uh, but, uh, those were the top five favorites.
07:45Obviously Detroit and Kansas city and Baltimore didn't even make the playoffs.
07:49Uh, Philly got beaten the first round Buffalo one, one playoff game.
07:52But how about this to just further, uh, amplify the point about nobody knows anything this time
07:58of year and nobody knows anything in September either, because this story on ESPN.com ran on
08:04September 4th, 2025, uh, a couple of days before last season kicked off with Philly and Dallas
08:10on a Thursday night at the link, 68 ESPN personalities weighed in with their AFC champion
08:18pick, NFC champion pick, Superbowl winner pick and league MVP pick.
08:23All right.
08:24Uh, we know that Seattle and new England played in the Superbowl, a Seattle beat the Rams and
08:32new England beat Denver.
08:34Those were the final four teams.
08:35Uh, the Ravens were picked by 30 of the 68.
08:38They didn't make the post season.
08:39The bills were picked by 19 of the 68 ESPN people.
08:44They got to the second round.
08:45The chiefs were picked by eight.
08:47They didn't make the playoffs.
08:48The Eagles were picked by five, the lions three, the Broncos got a pick.
08:52The Buccaneers got a pick and the Packers got a pick.
08:55None of those teams were in the Superbowl.
08:58Only the Broncos, only the Broncos made the final four.
09:04The Rams weren't even in the mix.
09:06Seattle was far from the mix.
09:07Seattle was far from the mix.
09:08I told you this before, Seattle and new England's over, under numbers last year, heading into the
09:13NFL season, seven and a half.
09:15That's what Washington's is, uh, heading into 2026.
09:20Uh, the AFC champion pick Ravens got 33 out of the 68.
09:24The bills got 25.
09:25The chiefs got nine.
09:26The Broncos got one.
09:27So nobody got, uh, an AFC champion, right?
09:30And nobody got an NFC champion, right?
09:32The Seattle Seahawks didn't get one vote out of the 68 and the Rams who played in the NFC title
09:37game only got one vote.
09:38The Eagles and the Packers and the lions were the real threats.
09:42Uh, league MVP, uh, last year was Matt Stafford out of the 68 ESPN personalities making preseason
09:49picks.
09:50Nobody gave Matt Stafford a chance to win the MVP.
09:55And I'll also mention nobody had Drake may as an MVP candidate.
10:00If he finished second Lamar Jackson, Burrow, Josh Allen, Mahomes, and Jaden Daniels were
10:06the top five picks to win the MVP prior to last season.
10:12We just don't know much guys this time of year.
10:15It's the best part of the sport.
10:17It's so unpredictable.
10:18There are so many things that you just can't possibly predict, you know, in May or June or
10:25July or August.
10:26Sometimes it takes until November to really figure it out.
10:31I, I did love Ken law though.
10:33I love Ken law just dropping.
10:35I mean, he used the S word is essentially a comma, uh, between mentioning how many of
10:43his new teammates can go and are M efforts because you know, away can go.
10:52He can go a many, Hugh.
10:54He can go.
10:55Kayla Vaughn can go.
10:56Settle can go.
10:58Dietrich can go.
10:59Uh, DA can go.
11:00That's Doran Armstrong.
11:01He's coming back.
11:02We know he can go.
11:03D pain can go.
11:06I hope he's right.
11:07I'll tell you what.
11:08I thought Ken law was good last year.
11:09I think Ken law will be good this year.
11:10And I do think that, uh, you know, I, there was another, I mean, I, I copied and pasted
11:18a bunch of these emails and tweets that I got while I was away about OTAs.
11:22Where was the other one?
11:24Um, this one from Glenn, Glenn wrote really.
11:29He missed you this week.
11:30He meant last week.
11:31Seems like every move Adam Peters made in the off season is paying off.
11:36Now, just one Iuke or digs domino to fall and look out.
11:40Yeah, it's way too premature, uh, to say that Adam Peters, uh, off season is paying off.
11:49That doesn't mean that you can't have an opinion about Adam Peters off season, about what might
11:56happen and project what will happen and hope will happen, uh, and even feel strongly about what will
12:03happen.
12:03But there is nothing that's happened so far that's, that would tell you that Adam's off season
12:14is paying off.
12:16That won't be realized if it's realized until the game start in September.
12:21It doesn't mean that I don't like what he did.
12:23Cause I do like what he did.
12:24I love a, he identified the problem defense.
12:27B, he identified that the talent was part of the problem.
12:33C, he identified along with his head coach that the coaching was part of the problem and
12:38doing the same thing over and over again is the definition of course of insanity.
12:45And they didn't do that.
12:47They went out and changed everything up and we'll see if that pays off.
12:51We won't know for a while.
12:53Put it this way, running it back with the group they had last year, probably wasn't going to pay
12:58off.
12:59And that's why I liked the off season and look at a couple of the players.
13:02I do like go away.
13:03I think go away has a chance to be a really good player.
13:07I think maybe they got him as an ascending player, you know, uh, Suter, by the way, in one of
13:13his
13:13texts to me, uh, over the last week said he was watching film on settle and he thinks settle is
13:18going to have a really good season.
13:21Now he said this and it's so true.
13:23We don't know how he'll be used.
13:25We can guess on how he'll be used, but in a new defensive scheme, we can only guess on
13:32how he'll be used.
13:33And then it's the, at the NFL level, how it all comes together, how everybody fits together.
13:38That's what Howie Roseman's done really well, you know, probably better than anybody else.
13:44Speaking of Howie Roseman, he was involved in one of the big two trades yesterday.
13:50Let's get to that next.
13:52Kevin Sheehan show, the team 980 and the team 980.com.
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