00:00And I think it's fair to say he didn't pop.
00:03Sonny Stiles was on the field.
00:05He didn't pop.
00:08He was on the field for...
00:09One series.
00:11One series.
00:11What was it?
00:1210 plays?
00:1211 plays?
00:1314 play drive, 93 yards.
00:15Yeah.
00:17I mean, they didn't...
00:18I don't think he allowed a pass reception.
00:22Yeah, I mean, just to the naked eye,
00:24he looked like he was fine in coverage situations.
00:27I mean, they ran at him a few times.
00:28A-Chan had a big 15-yarder kind of right at him
00:31where he got blocked by, I don't know,
00:33the right guard or tackle.
00:35He got confused by some play action,
00:37but that's going to happen,
00:38especially to a rookie getting his first case of NFL action.
00:41Correct.
00:42Like, I'm not going to watch that cut-up
00:44and say he's a bust.
00:46I know.
00:46I mean, like, come on.
00:48But that's what people do.
00:49A couple plays, he was in on some tackles.
00:52Yeah, he had three tackles.
00:53He was diagnosing coverage downfield.
00:56Like, he seemed to be in the right spot.
00:58Yeah.
00:58And had decent coverage.
01:00I mean, I'm not going to call him, you know,
01:04like, a terrible player because he missed a few plays
01:08or was blown up by the offensive lineman in a few spots.
01:11Right, and by the way, he was one of 11 guys.
01:13I mean, there's 10 other guys that could have stopped A-Chan
01:15or Willis or whoever was carrying the ball.
01:17But I don't know.
01:18He was getting killed.
01:19I get it.
01:19If Saquon Barkley has 150 yards rushing in week one.
01:21If he was doing this week five, week six, and guys are just running up the middle on him.
01:25Sure.
01:26All right, then we can question it.
01:27Right.
01:28Our guy first round, Mach, who, look, we have him on the show because he's kind of entertaining to us.
01:33We don't even know if he was truly a scout.
01:35He loves to start off every tweet saying, as a former NFL scout, you know, his main targets are Caleb
01:43Williams, Shador Sanders.
01:45Now he's really ripping into Fernando Mendoza because he had a fourth round grade on him.
01:50Right.
01:51Doesn't like Jackson Dart.
01:52Doesn't like J.J. McCarthy.
01:53He hits on some, but he also thinks Spencer Rattler was the best quarterback of the draft a couple years
01:59ago.
01:59He's all over the place.
02:00He said, Sonny Stiles is a soft football player.
02:04He said, my best advice is go play basketball and pursue your true passion.
02:09And he said he went through the motions on the opening drive.
02:14Well, I mean, that's his perception.
02:16I saw him go in there.
02:18He might have picked the wrong hole, but he went in a hole and, you know, took on a running
02:22back or an offensive lineman and got a good crack at him.
02:26I don't know.
02:27It's hard to say.
02:28A lot of that, he was in coverage.
02:30Right.
02:31You just got to give the kid the benefit of the doubt.
02:32Freak athlete, played at a super, super high level at an elite school.
02:37You got to imagine the talent is going to shine through.
02:39I mean, he just tweeted three hours ago.
02:41This is first round mock.
02:42The problem with Sonny Stiles is his heart is not in it, which I just feel like that's laughable.
02:48Like, you get to the point where you're a star at Ohio State.
02:52You're drafted in the top ten.
02:53And, like, your heart's not in it?
02:56It seems kind of silly.
02:57This is Sonny Stiles' whole life.
03:00It seems.
03:00He's playing NFL football at this point and trying to be a really good player in the NFL.
03:05He's going through the motions.
03:07Right.
03:07Doesn't want to be there.
03:08I mean, come on.
03:10Who knows?
03:10It seems laughable.
03:12You know, I know that there was some criticism of Chennault, too.
03:15But, again, DQ defended both those guys.
03:17And so, you just got to defer to them.
03:19It's preseason.
03:21First crack at it.
03:22Let's see what happens.
03:24See if they pop a little more in week two.
03:28Look, there's a potential that there will be a drop-off from Bobby Wagner to Sonny Stiles in year one.
03:36Definitely.
03:37Bobby Wagner was a tackling machine here in Washington.
03:40Definitely.
03:41And maybe he was flawed, particularly as he got older, in coverage.
03:47But Sonny Stiles has these athletic traits that if he's coached up and he has his heart into it, he
03:53should become a star.
03:55Yeah.
03:55He should be okay.
03:56I wouldn't panic.
03:58Yeah.
03:58I mean, he's getting compared to a future Hall of Famer.
04:00Yeah.
04:01And remember, it's still a position change for him.
04:03You know, he's only been doing it a couple years at Ohio State.
04:07So, he's still learning on the job.
04:09And even in week one against the Eagles, if Saquon Barkley puts Sonny Stiles in a blender in week one
04:16and he looks out of place, I kind of semi-expect that to happen.
04:22Saquon Barkley is basically a Hall of Fame-level running back.
04:27And, you know, guys are going to catch balls out of the backfield.
04:30Like, if that happens in week one, don't be completely shocked.
04:34They're asking him to do a lot, though.
04:36If you saw, they're kind of moving him all around the place.
04:39You know, when they got towards the goal line, he was out on the edge.
04:41Well, that's why they drafted him at number seven.
04:43Yeah.
04:43I feel like he's not just a prototypical, you know, like inside linebacker.
04:48But that's what you hope to see, though.
04:49You hope to see just a player or two where he's just flash and you think it's Micah Parsons.
04:54You know what I mean?
04:54Yeah, that'd be great.
04:55You'd like to see a player or two like that.
04:57And I don't know that we necessarily saw that in week one, but I would just, hey, it's early.
05:04Coach said he did fine, so I'll say he did fine.
05:06Yeah, and again, I mean, you don't know exactly what his role is supposed to be on certain plays.
05:13Totally.
05:14So you can't just say, oh, he's soft, he sucks, he's got no heart.
05:18Maybe he was going to where he was supposed to go.
05:20Totally.
05:21Especially in some of those running plays.
05:22He's like, maybe he's just supposed to just, that's his gap.
05:25Correct.
05:26Whether the player's there or not, that's his gap.
05:28Yep.
05:29Player wasn't there.
05:30I agree.
05:30It's hard to judge.
05:31It's hard to know.
05:32I don't know what his role was.
05:33The one thing that I would say, and it was one drive, is he didn't pop.
05:37No.
05:37You would have loved to have seen one splash playing.
05:40That's why we drafted him in the first round with that high pick.
05:44Let's wait until three games of the regular season, and let's see, and then we count up
05:51how many pop plays we've seen.
05:53Yeah, I think that's fair.
05:54Yeah.
05:54I think that's fair.
05:55Flying under the radar, by the way, is the Dorans Armstrong story.
05:59Yeah.
05:59So Dorans Armstrong, now they didn't necessarily expect him to be a huge contributor, especially
06:06early in the season, because he's coming off the torn ACL.
06:09ACL, but he was a guy who led the team in sacks, right, a couple seasons ago?
06:16Before he got hurt.
06:17Yes.
06:17Yeah.
06:18It was last year.
06:20And he's been a contributor.
06:22He's now suspended for a game for violating the personal conduct policy.
06:27It seems like it's some sort of domestic dispute that happened.
06:29The details, at least when I read, were a little...
06:32A little murky.
06:33Yes.
06:33It's hard to determine.
06:35I didn't do a lot of looking around, though, to see what I could find on it.
06:37He was arrested on two misdemeanor charges, assault causing bodily injury and resisting
06:42arrest slash search or transport.
06:45But all I read was that...
06:46All right, but that's all I saw.
06:47Did you see any other details?
06:49No.
06:49Like, what does that mean?
06:50All I read was that the commanders were, you know, very open with the league office.
06:54They notified everybody when they were supposed to be notified.
06:56And I guess to their discretion, you know, whatever.
07:04They've handled it.
07:05It didn't rise to the point where they felt like they had to let him go.
07:08He's been suspended for one game.
07:09It is what it is.
07:12Man, it happened over a year ago.
07:14Right.
07:15It's crazy.
07:16It was back in 2025.
07:18Yeah.
07:18May 10th.
07:19Yeah.
07:20Yeah, we saw that.
07:21And, you know, you certainly don't want your guys suspended for a game for that reason.
07:24But...
07:24Isn't it funny how long that takes?
07:26Because May 10th is before even last season.
07:28Correct.
07:28So they knew it before even last season.
07:31Yeah.
07:32So, it is what it is.
07:33But they obviously didn't think it was that serious.
07:35He's still on the roster.
07:36Yeah.
07:37It was on the roster last year.
07:39That's what I mean.
07:39Yeah.
07:39And balled out.
07:40Yep.
07:41So, listen.
07:43The defense is going to be markedly better.
07:44I know it was disheartening for people to watch that first drive.
07:47I could see my timeline exploding with people's heads exploding.
07:51That they just kind of shoved it on us in the first day.
07:53You know, a bad team.
07:54But, you know, I don't know exactly how many starters were out there.
07:58But it wasn't a lot.
07:59It wasn't.
08:01You know, it didn't have the big studs.
08:03You know, Sonny's a rookie.
08:04Very first look.
08:05Let's just relax.
08:06I think they're going to be markedly better defensively.
08:09You didn't get to see O.A.
08:10You didn't get to see Lou Vu.
08:13I mean, you just go down the list.
08:15Nick Cross, I don't think, played.
08:17Right?
08:17Nick Cross wasn't out there.
08:18I don't think so.
08:20Yeah, I mean, a lot of the new additions weren't there.
08:23Sonny Stiles was about it.
08:24If the starters were out there, if all the commander starters were out there,
08:28they wouldn't have gone down the field in 13 plays.
08:31Now, if weeks one and two come around,
08:33and the Eagles and the Cowboys put up 60-plus points in the first two weeks,
08:38there's going to be a lot of finger-pointing and asking whether...
08:42Well, let's just wait and see if that happens.
08:43Right?
08:43Yeah.
08:44Let's hope it doesn't happen.
08:45Here are the guys that didn't play.
08:47Obviously, Jaden, Terry, Tunsell, Zao.
08:51You might as well just take him off the list.
08:53Alec Reddy, but he'll be back.
08:54Cosme didn't play.
08:55Connerly didn't play.
08:56Chig didn't play.
08:57Bates, he'll be back.
08:58Diggs, Bill, defensively.
09:02No Payne.
09:03No Dietrich Wise.
09:04No Tim Settle.
09:05No Kinlaw.
09:06No Emenehu.
09:08No Adafi Owe.
09:09No Luvu.
09:11No Chason.
09:13No Dorrance Armstrong.
09:14No Trey Amos.
09:15No Amik Robertson.
09:16I mean, basically nobody.
09:18Except for Sonny Stiles.
09:19Yeah, I mean, they...
09:20Chennault and Stiles.
09:21They played a couple guys, so they suited up Sonny, and they suited up Chennault, and
09:26that team got shoved on.
09:28What can you do?
09:29Playing behind backup defensive linemen.
09:31The star of the game was Robert Henry Jr.
09:33Enough said.
09:34Yeah.
09:35Yeah.
09:36Don't panic.
09:371-800-636-1067.
09:40But again, the uniforms look great.
09:41Uniforms look great.
09:42The uniforms are the star of the day.
09:45I would say above the running back contributions.
09:47We'll get into it more as we hit the skins next, here on The Junkies.
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