00:00joining us right now is our friend martenzie johnson covers the commanders for notice
00:05martenzie what's up man how you been i'm good how y'all doing you staying out of the sun today
00:10yeah everybody's everybody's happy for air conditioning today
00:15yeah it's not air conditioning coming from a tent exactly um we've been out there every day
00:20with you and i want to mostly just talk ball but i was curious kind of your reaction to the
00:25jayden daniel's cease and desist letter this morning yeah i guess my only thing is it seems
00:31like there's some conflicting messages out there uh we see that the letter doesn't mention anything
00:37about the jersey but then a spokesperson for jayden says basically this is all about the jersey number
00:44uh so i guess we'll have to ask jayden ourselves next week but at this point this is a legal
00:50thing
00:50man this is drake and kendrick man i'm bored by that i'd rather talk football you know
00:54yeah dude it's also like this seems so highly technically legal that i just don't know what's
01:01going on with it like i wish everyone good luck um yeah exactly we were talking yesterday as you
01:08were leaving practice what stood out to you most watching the dolphins and the commanders on the
01:13practice field yeah coming in my my main goal and i think this applies to tomorrow's preseason game
01:21as well it's just looking at the offensive line when you've got two you know supposed starters who
01:26aren't going to play in nick allegretti uh at least for the time being and then laramie tunzo
01:31for the long term uh you want to know what the protection is going to look like both for jayden
01:37and the running backs i thought it was decent enough for jayden i don't think pass protection
01:40at least right now is an issue it's really the interior line so that would include uh julian
01:47good jones who's replacing allegretti and then chris paul and then coleman but i think it's more
01:53so just the interior uh bill uh crossy merit and rashad white were practically going nowhere
01:58most of that joint practice um that could just be a you know we just had to reshuffle things
02:05a couple days ago so we're getting used to it or it could be a long-term problem where again
02:10maybe
02:11not the pass protection but the running game might struggle because the the offensive lineman can't
02:17you know push the defensive lineman backwards so that was what stood out to me because that's what
02:21i went in looking at but then also the defense i i had such high holds for the defense i
02:26think we all
02:27did we saw what the pass rush what the run stuffing could do when the defense was going against the
02:32commander's offense and they did it against the dolphins too with the caveat of i don't know how
02:37good the dolphins are but they do have an offensive line that has two i think all pros right or
02:43at least
02:43pro bowlers so like they went against quality uh competition there and i thought the defense just stood
02:49out that that two minute drill at the end where i think i counted five plays that the dolphins ran
02:55and malik willis got sacked on three of them uh amik broke up the other pass and i think uh
03:01they got
03:02they actually got a pass off which is one of the few passes i saw them got off get off
03:06all day and
03:07then nick crosses right there and blew that up so uh i think the defense is as advertised with that
03:13that definitely stood out not to mention you know jayden and the receiver what do you think caused the
03:17most problem was it the speed uh of the defense of the commanders that caused them the problems
03:23yeah i mean adate and caleb on coming off the edge is like you know michael johnson sprinting like he
03:31was in the backfield quicker than the office alignment for the i mean they were in the backfield quicker
03:36than the office alignment for the dolphins were it seemed like um but then it's just the strength too
03:40like the ability getting around them it's just the defense is just so capable of you know ruining the
03:48play before it even starts we've seen this throughout camp with the commander's offense
03:52and it just continued with with miami's uh on wednesday one thing i noticed is when you're watching
03:59the same team practice every day for weeks at a time like we do in training camp you can kind
04:04of
04:04get focused or caught up in what you think you're seeing but once you see them against someone else
04:12is when you realize if it's good or not and i think the most rewarding thing from that practice if
04:18you're dan quinn and that coat that coaching staff is like all right this actually does look pretty
04:23good like well these guys are moving forward in a manner to implement our systems and i think their
04:28systems have some real merit yeah like what do you all call it ashburn syndrome or whatever like you
04:35watch you know a severance rounder you know take all these reps for two or three weeks you're like oh
04:41my
04:41god this guy is a pro bowler and then they go against other competition like oh no i was just
04:46playing
04:46yeah i was wrong here but with with the defensive front seven like you said going against the
04:52commander's offensive line which has been banged up having guys in and out maybe you start to think
04:58maybe they're not as good as i think they are because they're not going up against some uh a unit
05:03at full strength but again the dolphins actually have good offense alignment and the same thing i've
05:08been seeing the last three weeks with the commander's offensive line the same thing happened to the miami
05:13offensive line we might have questions about how well the commander's office will do this year
05:18because there's a lot of moving parts as a new offensive coordinator all these sorts of days i am
05:24certain that the washington defense is going to be like a top five top three unit i don't need to
05:30see
05:30anymore they're just that fast they get after it the secondary is still coming along and i think
05:35they're really good it and sunny styles i haven't even mentioned him yet yeah it's just so many moving
05:41parts for that defense where i'm i'm i you can write it in stone they're going to be one of
05:46the
05:46best defenses in the league could it be that that that that defense is so damn good and the offense
05:51has to go against them it makes them a lot better as well in the long run look all i'll
05:57say is
06:00the seahawks and the patriots played in the super bowl last year and i don't think their offenses
06:06say for jackson smith and jig book were at all that good and the defense has carried them all
06:12the way to the super bowl that's not to say that that's going to happen in washington but as you
06:16mentioned be mitch like the defense can make it so much easier for the offense that like with the
06:21patriots that snow game against who was that the broncos yeah yeah i can't remember who yeah
06:29drink may didn't have to do anything he just had to breathe and they got all the way to the
06:34super
06:34bowl so yeah i think it will make it so much easier for the offense when the defense is just
06:39getting you know their opponents off the field with ease man that is uh it's great to have somebody with
06:45new eyes watch that and just not be bogged down by like last year or years past because they have
06:53looked good so far man and they are kind of flying to the football and i think there is a
06:59documented
06:59track record of like that brian flores coaching tree defensively look balling out you know what i mean
07:08yeah like it's i'm i'm excited really for tomorrow and i don't know how much of you know the regular
07:15season playbook they're going to put out there but i'm a fan of blitzing uh especially in you know
07:21quote-unquote meaningless games uh so i'm really excited to see uh the defenders get after it
07:27tomorrow if you know durante jones is living up to the brian flores you know coaching true stuff
07:32yeah i don't know that we see it tomorrow but we might see it when we get to i think
07:36blitzing is
07:36just a part of what they do yeah you know like like the lining up and having the guys in
07:42all the
07:42gaps and you know look like you're about to bring eight and you're three people rushing you drop out
07:46people it makes quarterbacks have to think and sometimes they make the wrong mistake they may
07:51throw that ball straight to a guy that's dropping out instead of coming so i mean i think that's a
07:57part of their defense which we may call it blitz and they call it everyday work yeah i think joshua
08:03joseph joseph uh after said like you know we can just send four we don't even really need to blitz
08:09and i don't think he's lying like they whether it's a defensive tackle the defensive ends
08:13the edge rushers they can get after without having to send five six guys um i've been impressed by
08:20rasul douglas what do you make of the veteran corner you know the thing about rasul that i don't
08:25understand is how he is so good and yet only stays on teams for like one year like he's playing
08:32against
08:32the dolphins who could probably use a good cornerback and yet he's on washington right now
08:37like he's real sticky um he like i think it was earlier this week uh he was going against terry
08:44mccorn and one-on-ones and terry got the best of us but terry had to work for it terry
08:49maybe even had
08:49to push off a little to get him off of it rasul is really good the thing i just don't
08:53understand
08:54is why no team wants to have him for longer than at this point like a year at a time
08:58any players that
09:00we expect to play tomorrow night like i'm really excited to see katron allen go tomorrow night because
09:05we haven't seen a ton of him in camp are there any players like that that we know will play
09:09in
09:09this preseason debut uh that you're excited to see joshua joseph who i just mentioned like he's
09:15been great levon and adafe obviously have been the highlights of the edge rushers just because
09:20they're so good and they're the veterans but joshua joseph has stood out i know you like him jp
09:26um i'm excited to see what he can really do i think he did really well even against the dolphins
09:31i saw
09:32him you know mucking some stuff up there uh so i think out of anybody who's going to play which
09:37is
09:37really probably the second and third teamers uh joshua is definitely one to stand out
09:42joseph has looked really good man he's got kind of that size and length off the edge the guys in
09:49the 40s man i like javante gene baptize i've covered him for a few years but he's shown real good
09:54bend too
09:55and i don't know if chase on will go but he's in there too um anybody you think is there
10:01is there
10:01anybody that you think needs to show up in a big way kind of as we look ahead to the
10:06end of the
10:06month with roster cuts uh sam harvin perhaps like i think they're going to keep what three quarterbacks
10:14i think that's what they did last year right two or three um i don't think the rookie is going
10:19to push
10:19him out but uh you know i think there could be competition with him and mariota not really because
10:25mariota is going to be number two but i do think sam this is year two for him or three
10:30three
10:31this is three for him like i think you do have to show something and he's been kind of up
10:35and down
10:36from at least from the training camp days so i would want to see more from him because he's not
10:41that
10:44distinguishable right i keep calling a rookie because i don't want to mess up uh athens name
10:48uh his last name but uh yeah there you go thank you dmitch um but he i i would need
10:56to see more
10:57from sam to guarantee that he's on the team again because again he's had some bright spots you know
11:02as early you know recently as last week but uh it's really been up and down for him in that
11:07third
11:07quarterback spot yeah we've kind of seen this for a few years now frankly i think if they keep a
11:11third
11:11quarterback he's not on the roster right now but that's why they play the games we'll see what
11:16happens over the next couple weeks martenzie thank you for the time enjoy it yeah for sure i'll see you
11:25him a follow at 10z johnson
