00:00so they still have about 50 games remaining 48 whatever it is like there's still plenty of
00:05baseball to play and you traded away some real power out of the lineup so paul taboni was asked
00:10how confident are you in this team's offense after trading away curtis mead and luis garcia
00:17yeah well i think i'll start by just saying like it's really tough to replace those guys like
00:21curtis and louis both um they're just i mean they've been two of the best hitters in the
00:27uh i don't think it's reasonable for us to expect you know folks to just hop right in and replace
00:33them you know one for one uh having said that uh a huge reason why our offense has been really
00:38good
00:39to date is that uh it's been a huge team effort and um there have been a lot of folks
00:44that are
00:44contributing uh versus right versus left whatever it might be so um we're going to be uh you know
00:51it's my hope that the expectation amongst uh the offense amongst the position player group is that
00:55we're not going to going to slow down and um you know we're going to have players popping into those
01:00roles whether it's brady or abby or whoever it might be um to uh to do their do their jobs
01:06and
01:06uh ideally we can look up you know a month or two from now and uh you know say that
01:12like hey the
01:12offense hasn't slowed down much um and if anything it'd be cool if we reach new heights so um so
01:18yeah
01:18that's the thought uh once again i don't want to place unfair expectations on the group but uh
01:24i really believe in this group and i think we can still uh string together a bunch of really
01:28really quality at bats over the course of the the uh next two months before the playoffs
01:34you buy that i buy he's hoping he's hoping that that's what i mean i think they have some guys
01:40they have feel that can uh start doing it you can't guarantee 40 or home runs like sure you start
01:45the beginning of this season you couldn't expect those guys you didn't expect them to do what they
01:50were doing so i think they got some guys in mind that they feel can get it done but they
01:56had to
01:56improve that damn pitching hardcore yeah bullpen they had for the long term yeah they had to dude
02:01i'm not mad at the baseball moves i'm mad at ownership um i got in i get i've talked about
02:07this
02:07a zillion times i get an email every morning from mlb.com they decided there were six i believe it's
02:13six
02:15six biggest winners of the trade deadline who you want to guess number one who is that the dodgers
02:20they're the biggest winners well they got scoble yeah no yeah in in all capacities um it is kind
02:26of crazy how what do you think the highest prospect detroit got back now they got a bunch but what
02:35do you
02:36think the highest number of the top 100 list is he's probably about a 12 or 14 i i would
02:43think that's
02:43what you want maybe even top 10 the highest prospect return number 25 and number 68 wow
02:51how about this for a name the dude the 68th best prospect in major league baseball river ryan river
02:58ryan start calling stuff have his name it's cool
03:04um no wonder people are saying the dodgers the tigers didn't get enough but the thing about them
03:09they were just trying to get rid of them they were trying to move forward kwan in the building
03:14what's up man hey ben we got kwan martin sitting down mask him if he thinks the nats should have
03:19bought or sold i'm focusing on my job right now i'm not worried about no nets uh commander safety
03:26kwan martin sitting down in the tent what's up man how you been i'm good man how y'all doing
03:29all
03:29right man we're doing good brother how camp been for you it's been great man uh just learning new
03:34system uh just being out there with the guys man just flying around getting some different looks
03:38from the offense so it's been good i'm looking at it i'm getting excited by it how excited are you
03:43all for this system and how how how are the changes compared to whatever what you had ah man we're
03:48super excited man it's it's a super fun defense i think if you uh there's no way you're supposed to
03:53be when you're supposed to be there i think it'll be really fun for us to just bring it to
03:57life
03:57especially with the uh pieces that we got for you to get to be the aggressor in this system
04:03running downhill maybe some blitzing how do you prefer that where it to me having watched
04:10everything the last couple years and then watching now it seems like the goal is for you guys to
04:14dictate to the offense what's going to happen rather than kind of read and react system am i
04:19re am i seeing that right yeah no that's that's definitely kind of uh you know how we look at
04:24it
04:24man you know we go into a call we got you know different tools and different things we can work
04:28throughout the uh down so just really depend on the looks we get man so we just reading and
04:33digesting the offense and uh getting us in the right look i've always felt in football i don't
04:37care if you're on offense defense special teams the person dictating is going to dictate what happens
04:42yeah and uh right now last year i kind of felt like y'all played like back and figured out
04:47what was
04:48going on i'm looking at guys in the a-gaps lining up and they move so on offense they start
04:53in one
04:54position they shift they're trying to make you tell them what you're doing
04:57yeah you're doing the same thing to them yeah i love it same old same old man so really just
05:03seeing what they're doing man and just kind of trying to figure it out from there um what do
05:07you think of number 52 playing in front of you oh man he's been fun to watch bro uh just
05:13you know
05:13the way he approaches approaches the game and his work ethic um just on the field off the field
05:18just how he come to work and uh doos a pro yesterday first day in pads that goal line stuff
05:26on bill
05:27what what did you see there it was the first play of 11 on 11 in pads and sunny just
05:31filled that
05:32it looked like was that it looked like a blitz was on anyway just can you walk us through that
05:37one
05:38uh no i don't think we had a blitz i think it was uh you know we were just showing
05:41zero
05:42and um you know it was on the goal line so it's kind of you know getting a look and
05:47uh really everybody
05:48was just working together man we got emotion and uh he kind of you know was free to play off
05:52the
05:52running back and i went down kind of shot it i think i was outside and he just flew inside
05:59i just
05:59heard the collision dude it was i just heard the collision behind me man and i looked up it was
06:04him
06:04so um so i'm curious for you if yesterday first day pads you always know there's going to be a
06:13pop
06:13right and maybe that was sunny but it's a little different when it's a run play i feel like the
06:18media
06:18members we had a little bit of a bet going who was going to be the first guy to make
06:23the big
06:24collision in the backfield it was will harris who would you have picked
06:29um i mean it's a number of guys now that we all play super physical and i just love some
06:35contact so
06:35it really could have been any guy on the field at the time but you know i ain't expect nothing
06:40different from the guys who did uh get those collisions the guys up front normally helps help you
06:45all do your job very well how has it been watching away and guys like that it's been fun man
06:51um just
06:51you know the energy that they play with the speed that they play with the intensity and um you know
06:56just getting after the old line and you know kind of just making our job a whole lot easier how's
07:00jayden
07:00looking to you he's look good man um just how you get the ball out um just looking good all
07:07around man
07:07ball placement uh just reading the defense we throw a lot at him so um so he's been great man
07:13just
07:14just to see him go through it commander safety kwan martin sitting down with us here in the tent
07:18um what about the rookie antonio williams what have you thought of his game so far ah man he's smooth
07:23real smooth uh i think he a lot faster than a lot of people expect yeah so he got some
07:28speed on him
07:29man and um you know he's just a pro too like another one of those guys who comes to work
07:33and uh you know
07:34just try to be his best when he on the field it's funny this time last year you guys were
07:39coming off
07:39the monster 24 season you had a pick six in the divisional playoff game expectations were so high
07:46but you had the mclaurin situation kind of looming over training camp this year you've got two new
07:51coordinators expectations nationally aren't too high how different does everything feel
07:56uh it's a lot different man i think you know this team we know where we could could be at
08:01and um
08:01especially with the new system man just trying to learn it as quick as possible and i'll just be on
08:06the same page because uh i think coach jones he teaches it to where he leaves no stone unturned
08:11so for us just trying to get on the same page as him and know the defense how he know
08:15the defense
08:15and i think that allow us to go out there and play fast and same thing on offense man those
08:19guys just
08:20getting the right looks and uh getting the right formations and you know just execute has the
08:24excitement of it made it easier to learn uh easier to start digesting oh yeah man i think the way
08:29he
08:29even you know teaches the defense is it allows us to learn it and um he seems like a real
08:35communicator
08:35yeah yeah every play uh you're gonna hear him and you know in the meetings he like i said just
08:41going
08:42through every detail man so we all like i know what you're doing he know what i'm doing and you
08:46know we all x's on the field so we can all kind of interchange and and do different stuff kwan
08:52thank
08:52you for making time for us man it's always good to chop it up with you appreciate you thank you
08:57commanders safety kwan martin gonna be a big new season for this washington defense nobody go anywhere
09:02it's bmich finley
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