00:00Stephon Diggs practiced for the first time today, met with the media, signed, sealed, delivered,
00:07took to social media this evening after practice about an hour ago,
00:11and Danny, he posted a picture of himself tossing a football in the air in his number 18.
00:15He definitely has the swag, had the gold chains on, and he was wearing the visor,
00:20which is like holographic, you know, like that yellowish-green look, glistening in the sun.
00:25But he posts an image of him in a practice jersey, 18.
00:28We were told before practice today that he'd be rocking 18,
00:32but don't expect that to be his number during the regular season.
00:35It's just what he's wearing right now.
00:37And so you wonder, okay, well, what number might he want that somebody's got that maybe they get cut or
00:42whatever?
00:43He posts this picture and says, y'all, Y-A-W, y'all got to help me get the goat
00:50to bless me with that seven.
00:52Praying emojis.
00:54Which is, by my calculations, a ploy to try to get people to reach out to Joe Theismann
01:00to free up the number seven that is not retired yet.
01:05Theismann, for whatever reason, has been kind of pushed down the list.
01:08Rigo, this year, we've talked earlier, you know, this camp, in fact, just a couple weeks ago,
01:12about Theismann's next on the list for next year, hopefully.
01:15But if you were to give the number seven out to Diggs and then potentially he's here for multiple years,
01:20then you've got to wait.
01:21And how do you retire a jersey that's currently being worn?
01:24This already happened once to Joe Theismann, by the way.
01:27Yep.
01:28Put him in a terrible spot, and it was the team's fault.
01:30Yeah.
01:30The late, tragically, Dwayne Haskins wanted the number seven, went to Theismann.
01:35What is Theismann supposed to do?
01:37Look like a jerk and say no.
01:40Or, you know, say yes and then have something happen that he probably wouldn't prefer,
01:43which is someone wears a uniform, and Haskins did.
01:46Obviously, it went how it went.
01:48But in the case of Stefan Diggs, everybody's very excited.
01:50I mean, what is Joe Theismann supposed to do?
01:52You're not going to say no.
01:53So what the team should do is essentially step in and go, hey, let's not put any.
01:58I mean, you're now putting public pressure via social media on Joe Theismann.
02:02You've already put him in a bad spot.
02:04100%.
02:04Again, this is a, I understand, and this is not this regime's fault, by the way.
02:08They saw this and went, oh, we need to obviously start retiring some of these jerseys
02:13instead of this informal one-toe-in, one-toe-out nonsense that the previous group did,
02:18which was so stupid and invited all these kinds of problems.
02:21Again, you know, these aren't the biggest fish to fry, but it's still something, right,
02:25where you have the equipment manager going, some guy comes and goes,
02:28hey, I wore 33 my whole life.
02:29Can I?
02:30Nope.
02:30That's Sammy Baugh's number, even though we didn't retire it, or now we sort of did.
02:34I mean, the whole thing was so stupid it was a mess.
02:36Now, you are, again, going through the same deal, and, you know,
02:41is this going to irritate Stefan Diggs, by the way, if the organization tells him,
02:44hey, please don't do that?
02:46I just don't know.
02:46The whole thing is a little bit of a mess.
02:48It's not this regime's fault.
02:49They're just now here as the music has stopped to try to fix it and solve it.
02:52But, yeah, it's a potentially awkward situation.
02:55I can't imagine that he would care all that much if the team said you can't
02:59because it's retired.
03:01I mean, it's not retired, but for the sake of saying it, it's not in circulation, right?
03:05Yeah.
03:06So, to me, that's what should happen.
03:08He should, you know, they had a conversation this morning, I'm sure,
03:11if not yesterday, where they talk about numbers.
03:14And when he said, I want seven, they should have said, nah, that one's off limits.
03:17It's a retired number.
03:18And it should end right there.
03:19Now, if he pushes back and says, well, it's not retired yet,
03:22or can we un-retire it, then I don't love that.
03:25I mean, I'm just not cool with that spot.
03:26You're putting one of the classic OG, great, all-time Washington players in.
03:32In this case, you know, Redskins legend Joe Theismann.
03:35But I do think it's up to the team to kind of step in.
03:38It doesn't seem like, you know, maybe the ship has already sailed
03:41if you're going on social media.
03:42And now next thing you know, Theismann's going to be asked about this,
03:45and he's going to have to discuss his interest in letting Stefan Diggs wear number seven.
03:51So here we are again for the second time.
03:54But, yeah, you're right.
03:55This was always a mess.
03:56It was always a silly thing that these numbers were not actually retired.
03:59They just weren't circulated.
04:00And they have cleaned that up and fixed that.
04:03Theismann just, incidentally, is one of the last guys that are locks to get his jersey retired,
04:07I would think, who hasn't had it done yet.
04:09Yeah, if he's not on deck, he's in the hole.
04:11You know what I mean?
04:11Like, it's coming, rightfully so, and it should.
04:15And it's just, as you said, a matter of time, there are several players in the queue
04:19that the team wanted to make sure that they tabbed.
04:21And you can't just – you've got to spread it out some.
04:23You can't just go, okay, listen, there was a void here.
04:26No one did it for 20, 30, 40, 50 years.
04:28We're just going to do nine this year.
04:30You want to make sure each guy gets their shine and gets their moment
04:32and gets their time for the video and the adulation and the celebration
04:36and kind of make it about them instead of just doing a cattle call.
04:38So, it's going to happen, but, man, it's just – I don't know.
04:42I'm not mad at anybody because, you know, all of the previous regime,
04:45but this is just one of those awkward spots that I don't know a great way out of it.
04:49Well, what should happen?
04:50I mean, when you say you're not mad at anybody, like, I'm not mad,
04:53but I wish Diggs wasn't doing this.
04:55I guess I would start with that.
04:56Like, I'm Team Diggs.
04:57I'm happy he's here.
04:58But there's a lot of numbers, man.
04:59Let's pick another one.
05:00Yeah, you were 14 a bunch.
05:01That seems to be a good one.
05:02I don't think there's any great 14s in Washington history.
05:05Sam Howell's not great?
05:06That doesn't work for you?
05:07I think I stand by what I said there.
05:09Okay, Brad Johnson, nothing.
05:10Okay, that's fine.
05:11I like Brad Johnson.
05:12Ryan Grant wore 14.
05:13Nothing there.
05:14And he was in a legal procedure.
05:16I think he had 14 illegal procedures.
05:18He may have.
05:19Ryan Grant.
05:19Yeah, or, like, 13.
05:21I mean, you could just wait and see.
05:23He was 13 throughout much of his career.
05:25That's currently – Traylon Berks, you're obviously not going to be given a number
05:28of a dude in your room currently.
05:31That would be pretty shady.
05:32But when cut down day comes, there's going to be a bunch of numbers freed up.
05:36So maybe you just pick one of those.
05:38But by going to social media, it just seems like the ball starts rolling here.
05:41And now the ball is already squarely in Joe Theismann's court again.
05:45So what is he supposed to do?
05:48I hate that that happens, by the way.
05:50What I would like is for the team to take it out of Joe's court.
05:52Before even Joe has a chance, someone from the team, one of the PR Peters over there,
05:57say, Joe, we're already on it.
05:58You don't have to respond.
05:59We will take care of this.
06:01So you don't have to make him go.
06:03We got you.
06:03Yeah, I guess that's cool.
06:06I'm excited about that.
06:07A guy that might only be here for a year.
06:09You know?
06:10You know what I like, though?
06:11Actually, now that I'm thinking about this, he is a DMV guy.
06:14He is a former Redskins fan, right?
06:16Growing up in this area.
06:18And I'm sure he knows the history decently.
06:20Like, he knows who Joe Theismann is.
06:21This is not just a random guy that doesn't know who Joe Theismann is.
06:24I guess Dwayne Haskins was also a local guy as well.
06:27But I don't know.
06:29That would almost make it, if you had the right reverence or respect,
06:31it would probably make it less likely that you'd ask for the number, though.
06:34One would think.
06:35Yeah, I mean, it's a...
06:37I don't know if he's joking.
06:39Also, like, again, I don't speak young person.
06:41So maybe there's some humor in there that I'm missing.
06:44I don't know how serious it is.
06:46It doesn't seem like a joke.
06:46I mean, for those of you that haven't seen it, it's a picture on his IG.
06:49He says, y'all got to help me get the goat to bless me with that seven.
06:54And he's got praying emojis.
06:56It feels like he's saying, I want to wear number seven.
06:59That's what it feels like to me.
07:00But, again, I don't know.
07:01This could be a hilarious joke, and we all laugh about it later at the party.
07:05I hope not.
07:06Again, I just need the team to step in and be like, shh, shh, shh, shh.
07:10Thanks so much.
07:11Nope.
07:12We're not doing that.
07:13Don't put Joe in the awkward spot.
07:15We learned from the previous group of owners who were terrible, and we're not going to do that.
07:20We're going to do a smart thing here.
07:21Please don't put us in that spot.
07:23Don't put Joe in that spot.
07:24Please and thank you.
07:25Let's go to Jonathan in Fairfax on G&D.
07:27Jonathan, how are you?
07:29Hi.
07:29Good afternoon.
07:30Big fan.
07:31Appreciate you.
07:31So, listen, so we as fans need to let Joe know that it's okay to say no.
07:37That's a good point, actually.
07:38We all were here.
07:39We saw what happened with Haskins, and I felt like he was put in a bad situation with that.
07:45And now here we go again, and, you know, I don't like that it was put on social media.
07:49It could have been a private conversation.
07:52But going past that, let's let Joe know it's okay.
07:56You're not going to be seen as a jerk or have – like, he's earned the ego to say no.
08:01And we know that, so we've got to let him know that.
08:04It's okay.
08:05You know what?
08:06It's a good point, honestly.
08:07I love that point.
08:07And also, he could come out and just say, hey, we did this once.
08:10I gave it to a quarterback because I wanted a fellow QB to wear it.
08:14Now it's a wide receiver.
08:15You know, he could even play that game where it's like, hey, I blessed the quarterback.
08:19I'm not going to – let's not do it this time.
08:21Also, again, if you're Joe Theismann, you don't have to say this part out loud.
08:24You are the odds on favor to have your jersey retired next year.
08:27So if you give it to Diggs now and he resigns here after this season,
08:31it's essentially like starting your clock again to wait for the Hall of Fame.
08:35You know what I mean?
08:35Right.
08:36But I hear that, and, you know, hopefully Joe feels empowered to do whatever he feels is right.
08:41But he's such a nice guy, he might just say yes, and now we're in this awkward thing.
08:45I mean, how generous and gracious a guy is Joe Theismann?
08:48I mean, he's been incredible to us over the years.
08:49We've gotten to know him a little bit.
08:51He's a phenomenal dude.
08:52He might just do it because now he feels that same sense that a lot of us would feel when
08:57we're imposed upon.
08:58Don't impose.
08:59That's like – I go back to that part of it.
09:00Yes.
09:01The team step in right now immediately, somebody who's got the duly designated authority to say,
09:07no, we're not doing that.
09:08Yeah, it is weird to, like, ask someone for their food.
09:12Yep.
09:13The response – no one should care about what the person said when you said,
09:16hey, can I have a bite of your burger?
09:18The weird thing was to ask for the bite of the burger.
09:21You did the thing that should have happened.
09:22That's right.
09:23You stay here.
09:23We're not.
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