00:00a lot of the national talk around the commanders it's pretty ugly i would say like there's not a
00:09lot of not a lot of positivity this dude mike tenere um i think he used to write for bleacher
00:16report i'll be honest my read on mike tenere is that he used to be he used to have a
00:20really high
00:21profile around the nfl for the outlets he worked for i think he was even with the athletic bleacher
00:25report and he has gotten maybe not gotten but his his twitter feed has become super political and i
00:31think over time if you go super political a lot of these main outlets kind of go the other direction
00:39but he runs his own sub stack now where he voices his football opinions this is a dude that knows
00:45some ball so i i don't want to discredit the the football at all and i wanted to ask you
00:51this
00:52um i'm just going to read from this and then you can respond okay b this is from mike tenere
00:58the
00:59commanders are projected to win 7.7 games by dboa i think they have had a miserable offseason despite
01:05adding stefan diggs the cavalcade of 32 year old acquisitions i've been dunking on all summer
01:10leaves me with little faith about the quality of the front office and the lower tiers of the roster
01:15dire tales from joint practices make me wonder about the reconfigured coaching staff so i think the
01:20commanders could be the worst team in the nfl it's hard to project them with the worst record because
01:25the browns quarterback situation is so dire that the team could surrender at the trade deadline while
01:30the cardinals schedule is so brutal relitigating what the commanders did after reaching the nfc 20
01:35nfc championship game in 2024 is tricky it's easy to condemn the laramie tunsel and debo samuel trades
01:41but those moves made sense at the time the commanders got so little besides jayden daniels from the
01:462024 draft that the seeds of decline may have already been sown the commanders needed to do a
01:51better job self-scouting the bottom half of their roster and creating competition among younger
01:56players in 2025 and this offseason they should have stockpiled late round picks and udfas and given the
02:01ones they did have better opportunities to win roster spots and roles one or two come from nowhere
02:06contributors would make their roster look a lot less like the result of an end of free agency
02:11shopping spree obviously really really strong language here like on a scale of one to ten that's
02:21a 12 what do you make of it b what i make of it come look at myself stack people's
02:27people are not
02:28paying attention to me on any major network please come look at myself i need that i need the people
02:32to view it that's what it sounds like to me because he what he's saying about them having a terrible
02:40offseason is it's i almost said the word is straight bs
02:46it's uh it is remarkable the the great steve montgomery's walking around causing trouble
02:52as always money always causing trouble money wave to be always causing trouble be you see you see
02:59money now i'm here too look at you don't have a monumental camera in front of here look at the
03:03stream wave to him here money i won't see him because i'm look at your computer man i don't pull
03:09up
03:09that damn thing every day i don't want to just look at you and me b said he's not looking
03:14at you
03:14but he says hello um i'm sorry i don't know there's a lot happening here brian um i think the
03:23language
03:23is obviously very very inflammatory and i think you can look at some of the decisions part of what he's
03:33doing that listen bro it happens like that jay you follow your rules of uh being a broadcaster to a
03:43t
03:43and you respect people and all i call the ass when i see an ass and he's being an ass
03:51i agree with that b i think that's fair i think he's trying to be inflammatory whether or not it's
03:56working i'm not entirely sure um i think really nobody knows much about this situation with
04:05washington and i think pft comments are tweeted this out the other day i got to text him if he
04:10can come on next week but it seems like everybody has forgotten how good jayden can be and there's
04:17this like working assumption that jayden could get hurt i was listening this morning john gruden i
04:24guess i was listening to barstool morning radio show because john gruden was on it and he was
04:30talking about how much he likes the cowboys how much he likes everything they've done and i think
04:35one we hear cowboys hype every year this time of year but two people are like they've really rebuilt
04:41that defense and if they can what john gruden said they just got to keep dak prescott healthy
04:46right and then they're a really good team how come nobody allows the same caveat for jayden and
04:52washington people have the exact same conversation around the bangles same conversation around lamar
04:58like jayden's not the only quarterback to have missed time yeah there's lots of them but let's
05:03let's just be real washington has been easy to pick on when when snyder was here and then they won
05:12that
05:13they went on 2024 everybody was praising them and then last year what had happened so now they're back
05:18at that and people are just taking their shots and i mean they got to win when you win you
05:24shut
05:24everybody up they got to get back to that but there are people out there who look at this this
05:30place
05:30still they haven't completely watched it of all the stinking head you know i mean we see stuff on a
05:37daily basis they just hear washington that's it agree with that i also can't stress enough how
05:46weird week one in the nfl can be um last year in week one the raiders went to new england
05:55and won
05:55yeah okay last year around the nfl the steelers needed a last second field goal to beat the jets
06:03in new york yeah the steelers went on to have a decent season the jets were absolutely god awful
06:10the bengals barely beat the browns like week one really nobody knows anything the broncos squeaked
06:16by the titans they did not say it too loud fans would get mad at you you said they don't
06:20know
06:20anything people are always mad at me no i'm just saying you know they get mad people and they say
06:24they don't know something when they really don't know so but like i'm allowing that i don't know that
06:28you and i know and i don't know but i know it's not as horrible as people have tried to
06:34make it out
06:35to be i know that i agree dude i think the reality in the nfl and i'm curious which teams
06:41you would say this applies to but the reality in the nfl the league is built for parody and generally
06:47what you get are four or five really good teams four or five really bad teams and everybody else
06:53is within a field goal or a fumble of each other in the middle yeah like i think the really
06:59bad teams
07:00are going to be the browns the jets the dolphins the cardinals like i think there's some really bad
07:05teams out there maybe you include the titans in there the raiders we'll see i kind of think
07:10kirk early on could stabilize the raiders i don't know if that's true but we'll see
07:15i think the really good teams in the nfl i think the eagles roster construction i think the broncos
07:21roster construction we'll see if the patriots are for real i think the ravens could be very good i think
07:26the bengals could be very good i certainly think rams and seahawks are very good outside of that
07:31everybody's got questions yeah the entire nfc south is a ball of questions nobody knows what the hell's
07:38going to happen down there nope i agree the nfc north the lions came in last in that division last
07:46year detroit is good jameer gibbs going to get the ball more that is good like i don't know man
07:54to
07:54proclaim that one team is god awful on september 4th and we haven't even played the damn australia
08:01game just seems premature he he totally forgot about the jets the browns you start naming just
08:08going around the league naming some teams because why washington fan base will come after you
08:17or they'll jump on your side to be honest with you so let's be real
08:23um brian yeah it is the friday of labor day weekend i hope everybody's preparing for a long
08:29weekend full of barbecues and cookouts and some enjoyment i hope everybody gets whatever they're
08:34looking for this weekend i know you pretty well you and i when we are sitting down and we're going
08:39to be busy over the weekend but we'll have football on the television yeah somewhere and over the next
08:44week we get nfl football wednesday night we'll be at mgm watching that we get nfl football thursday night
08:49we get the commanders next sunday afternoon like it is football season period and yet when we return
08:56i want to talk about the wizards
