00:00My panic meter from zero no panic to five full-fledged, you're running out of the building because you smelled
00:08smoke.
00:10I am at a zero. I am not wasting any energy.
00:16Now, if Jaden Daniels was hurt and out for the year, or if Diggs and McLaurin both broke their legs
00:23in the last practice, I'd be at least at a two for sure.
00:28But I am at a zero.
00:31I have absolutely no justifiable reason that I can come up with in my own mind to be panicked about
00:40anything entering 2026.
00:42That could change to a five after the opener, but I am absolutely not going to be conclusive on anything.
00:51No conclusions on anything until I see real football.
00:58The players that they intended on playing in their games this year, actually playing in their games,
01:07and then playing for the entirety or the majority of those games after you've prepared diligently for the opponent.
01:17That's when I will be in full panic if it looks terrible then, but not until then.
01:23I've done this a long time as a football fan.
01:26Most of you have as well.
01:29It's just wasted energy.
01:32Now, Tunsell worries me.
01:34Not having Amos worries me a little bit, but they haven't had Amos in a long time.
01:38And we saw 10, what did we see?
01:4110, 11 games from Amos last year?
01:42He looks like he's good.
01:44Looks like he could be a number one corner for us.
01:47I'd rather have him in the opener than not have him in the opener,
01:51but I'd much rather have our starting quarterback healthy and ready to go in the opener.
01:56I'd much rather have Terry McCorn and Stefan Diggs and Chigakonkwo and Daron Payne and Javon Kinlaw.
02:03And I'd like to have Owe ready.
02:05I'm a little bit concerned about Owe not being ready for the early portion of the season at this point.
02:09I mean, the guy they spent the most money on.
02:14Anyway, I'm at a zero.
02:16My panic meter cannot, I actually don't even turn it on until the regular season,
02:22unless I have to because the quarterback went down or their top four receivers and their top running back
02:29and their top left tackle, center, right guard, and right tackle went down.
02:34The Tunsell injury sucks.
02:36The Diggs addition was great.
02:39It's kind of what we have of substance.
02:43Stinks at Amos isn't going to be ready for the regular season,
02:46but I don't want him to play if he's not ready.
02:49301-230-0980.
02:51Max, where are you?
02:52Between zero, zero panic and five, this is a major five alarm deal,
02:57and you're running for the hills.
02:58I wish I could say I was at a zero like you,
03:01but the issues that we do have, not just depth, but injuries as well right now, are concerning to me.
03:11Now, Dan Quinn has said that all the guys, or a lot of the guys that were sitting on defense,
03:16they would have played if it was like a regular season game because of the nicks and bruises and stuff
03:21like that.
03:22But, man, the train is starting on IR, the center issues.
03:27Like, it's just, it can, I can see how these cracks in the armor can erode away at a season.
03:36So, it's concerning to me.
03:37Like, I don't understand why we took so long to kind of figure out what we were doing at the
03:41center.
03:41Now, I understand that Parker Brailsford was not on the board when the draft came around to us
03:47and we selected Josh Josephs.
03:51And, why am I blanking on the center for Las Vegas now?
03:56Tyler Linderbaum.
03:56Yeah, Tyler Linderbaum.
03:58We missed out on that, got outbid.
04:00It happens.
04:00But, man, it's just too many, cutting Biotish like at the beginning of last offseason kind of miffed me
04:08and now it miffs me even further.
04:11I am concerned, but I'm not, like you said, heading for the hills.
04:16Okay, so the number is again?
04:18A three.
04:19You're a three.
04:20I'm a three.
04:21Look, I just want to make sure that you're clear on this and everyone else is.
04:25Their plan at center is a plan that actually still exists.
04:31We just haven't seen it.
04:32Yes, it sucks that Allegretti didn't get all the preseason training camp work.
04:36He's got two weeks to get ready to be healthy for the opener.
04:39And if he ends up playing well this year, which is a possibility because we don't know that it isn't
04:45a possibility
04:46because we haven't seen it yet in an actual game.
04:50But, yes, I would have rather there had been more competition.
04:55And, look, there may be something still out there.
04:58This is going to be an interesting day and the next day or two to see what is out there,
05:06whether or not –
05:07some of the moves they make, like let's just say they end up making a trade
05:10or they go after, you know, the guy from Detroit that retired after nine or ten years that might still
05:17be available.
05:18And I'm talking about the center position.
05:20You'll find out, based on their actions, how desperate they are.
05:24If they think, like, they're going to enter the opener with Matt Gullman and nobody in backup, they're going to
05:30make a move.
05:30If they don't make a move at center, then they feel really good about Allegretti,
05:36the same way they felt when the offseason began and they didn't get Linderbaum.
05:40And they feel pretty good about Gullman.
05:42You know who they don't feel good about?
05:43Julian Good-Jones.
05:44They released him.
05:46But, yes, there were players.
05:48But, like, you mentioned Parker Brailsford because I've – you know, because we had somebody on the show,
05:53Cole Kubelik, who's really good as an evaluator and has been with the SEC Network and ESPN for a while.
06:00And he's in love with Parker Brailsford.
06:03He's an Auburn guy.
06:04Parker Brailsford's an Alabama guy.
06:05And he said he thinks he's one of the most underrated players flat out in the draft
06:09and that this is a good draft for centers and Washington should be able to get a guy like Brailsford.
06:14And they could have gotten him, you know, in the fourth round or in the third round had they wanted
06:19to take him early
06:20or traded up.
06:21And who knows?
06:21They picked Josephs the spot after Brailsford was selected by the Browns in the fifth round.
06:29Maybe that was going to be the pick.
06:31And then Brailsford wasn't there.
06:33Although, I think they liked Josephs.
06:36That was a guy they had really kind of earmarked as a guy they'd love to add in the draft.
06:41And they got that opportunity in the fifth round.
06:44I'm at a zero.
06:46Zero could go to a three or a two or a four or a five, but not until they actually
06:51play real games.
06:53Mark and Largo first on the call listener line rundown.
07:02Mark and Largo, go ahead.
07:03Where are you?
07:04Where are you on the panic meter?
07:06Zero to five.
07:07I'm at a zero, too, Kevin.
07:08I'm at a zero, too, to a certain extent.
07:10I would like to see O-Way, but it doesn't mean that O-Way won't play against Philadelphia.
07:15They might be okay, and I understand that.
07:17So, I really want to – but like I said to you last week, Kevin, they're going to have to
07:25play in the pistol
07:25or to hurry up to do what they have to do to make everything happen because you can't put all
07:32the pressure
07:32on that offensive line to make everything happen.
07:34I think they'll do this.
07:36And by the way, two and a half to three weeks ago, you and I had an argument about Luke
07:41McCaffrey and Jaden Daniels.
07:44I think I proved my point.
07:46I think – refresh my memory.
07:47I remember a lot of what you say because you are Mark and Largo, but refresh my memory on this
07:52one.
07:52I think he cares more about Luke McCaffrey than he does about the franchise quarterback for the commanders
07:58and Jaden Daniels.
07:58Wait, say that again.
07:59Say that again because –
08:00I said – I told you he cares more about Luke McCaffrey than he does about Jaden Daniels.
08:06And you can see that right now how everybody –
08:09Who does?
08:10Who cares more about McCaffrey than Jaden Daniels?
08:13Adam Peters.
08:14Okay, Adam Peters.
08:15Adam Peters.
08:16And Adam Peters was doing everything he could this weekend to make a trade for Luke.
08:20And the only reason why I think – let's just call it what it is.
08:24Luke is on this team because of the pity.
08:27Because of what?
08:28Because he couldn't find nobody else.
08:29Van Jefferson's easy to cut.
08:30Van Jefferson would get a job in 10 minutes.
08:32That's not a problem for Van Jefferson.
08:34But no one's going to pick up Luke McCaffrey.
08:37And what this shows, Kevin – and this is the biggest problem in the NFL.
08:41Forget about racism.
08:42It's nepotism.
08:44Nepotism is the biggest problem in the NFL, which is crazy.
08:48And I'm not saying that – I'm saying it because he did everything.
08:51He protected him for the last two and a half years.
08:54Dan Quinn, Jaden Daniels, and David Blount does not want this guy on his team.
08:59That's real nepotism.
09:00How do you know this?
09:02I want to hear why you know this.
09:04My hypothesis on it?
09:06Because Cliff Kingsbury didn't want him on the team last year.
09:09He did.
09:10And I'm of the opinion, even though I told you this a month ago.
09:13I said one of the reasons why Cliff was gone was because he wanted to get rid of Luke last
09:19summer.
09:20That's the way he's gone.
09:21Hmm.
09:22All right.
09:23It's certainly a theory.
09:25I still don't understand how it relates to the panic meter.
09:28You did answer the question, though.
09:30You're at a zero right now.
09:32You just wanted to remind me – you wanted to remind me that Adam Peters is more fond of Luke
09:38McCaffrey
09:38than he is the starting quarterback, which, by the way, personally may be true.
09:42It doesn't have anything to do with anything.
09:45But your hypothesis is that the only reason that Luke McCaffrey is on the team
09:52is because Adam Peters is the general manager.
09:55He came from San Francisco where Christian McCaffrey was.
09:58They were close, hence the connection to the younger brother, Luke.
10:03And Christian is saying to Adam, whatever you do, man, you better not cut my brother.
10:06And Adam's listening to Christian and the family.
10:09That's essentially it, right?
10:11Last name was McCaffrey, Luke wouldn't be in the league.
10:13It's just that simple.
10:14If Luke's last name was McCaffrey, he would not be in the league.
10:17Got it.
10:17Okay.
10:18I would have loved to have seen Van Jefferson on this team, actually.
10:21I think he's a good receiver.
10:22Thank you, Mark and Largo.
10:24Let's go to Willie in Gaithersburg.
10:27Willie, zero panic, up to five, full-fledged, running-for-the-Hills panic.
10:35Hey.
10:37Good morning, Kevin.
10:38I actually – yes, right after that game, my meter was up there at five.
10:45You know, but after investigating and, you know, finding out how many starters Baltimore had
10:54and also how many we had, you know, I kind of came down to about a three.
11:01After listening to you, you brought me down to about a one.
11:04But I still, you know, have questions about that line as everybody else.
11:10Sure.
11:10And one rumor that I heard, and I don't know how much merit there is in it this summer,
11:16and I heard a little bit about it about a week, or maybe this old news,
11:20but last name Little from Jaguars.
11:25I believe they were, you know, speculating something about that for a six-round pick
11:29or something like that.
11:30And also another center from, I believe, Texans.
11:35They were also speculating.
11:37And I don't know how much merit that is or if that's old news that already kind of like,
11:41you know, like dissipated or not exist anymore.
11:46What do you have on that, Kevin, if you have any?
11:49I mean, the one guy, and I've seen this name floated around a little bit, you know,
11:53they added that guy Brunskill, but then they cut him.
11:56That was during camp.
11:58The guy Graham Glasgow that started for the Lions for several years retired in the offseason.
12:03And, you know, I don't even know how that would work if they convinced him to come out of retirement
12:07with a big deal.
12:08I think he was a free agent, so he'd be available on the free agent as a free agent.
12:18But, yeah, I don't know.
12:19You know, there were a bunch of – the guy Lloyd Cushenberry from Tennessee who ended up signing,
12:24I think, with Buffalo.
12:25I think it was Buffalo.
12:27You can look that up for me, Max.
12:28I thought he was going to be a possibility after Linderbaum didn't come through.
12:32But he was also injured, and there was concern about whether or not he would pass a physical –
12:38I don't know.
12:39I mean, they – we'll see what happens.
12:42We'll see, you know, among the released players.
12:45Remember this.
12:46Just because a player may appear to be better, you know, or have a bigger name or a bigger standing,
12:52it doesn't mean that they think he'll be a good fit for what they're doing.
12:56You know, you've got to find a guy, and then you've got to find a guy that's a good fit.
13:01I still think there is significant belief in Nick Gallagretti,
13:05and none of us have seen Nick Gallagretti play center in a regular season game.
13:11None of us have.
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