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JP, BMitch, the aquarium, and callers debate what Washington's biggest issue is after two weeks of the season.
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00:00Brian, I'll ask you, and then we'll hit the phones.
00:02Don't ask me about no legs, no.
00:03No, I'm not asking you about legs.
00:05If you could have a magic wand, poof, you could fix one thing for this commander's team.
00:12I mean, you've got options.
00:13Jaden's health.
00:14You've got O-line issues.
00:17If I can get one thing, I want Jaden healthy.
00:22Yeah.
00:23It's hard to argue with that.
00:25He's the best player.
00:26He's the most important player.
00:27I do think, though, with Marcus, and maybe not this week, but the Colts, the Giants, even the Niners,
00:33like as you get ahead with Marcus, if you could fix the damn secondary, you might have more of a
00:38shot in some of these games.
00:39That would be my next.
00:41And just getting the secondary to play better, man.
00:45And listen, it gets to the point where I know we always blame the D coordinator.
00:53I'm watching Durante get in, chew people out, and they keep making mistakes.
01:00So is it the D coordinator, or is it just a damn professional athlete not doing their job properly?
01:07I mean.
01:10Because when you see a coach get mad as he did on that sideline when he stepped on the field
01:14and had to have a little talk,
01:16that tells me you're not doing what the hell we're teaching you.
01:19You're not doing what we've shown you.
01:22So that's not on me.
01:24You know, but the guy in charge gets blamed.
01:27But I always felt like this as a player.
01:31This is my obligation to be at the best.
01:35I can't just let people blame that dude over there because he can't make me play when I'm on the
01:40field.
01:40Totally.
01:41He can't make my plays for me.
01:42And if I don't do enough to get ready, then that's my problem.
01:47Serious question.
01:48I mean, I think the clip you're talking about, I don't want to speak for you,
01:51but there was a clip that went fairly viral after the Cowboys game of Durante yelling at Mikey Sammer still
01:56particularly.
01:57It was during the game.
01:58Yeah.
01:59Yeah.
01:59Do you think they have to put him on the sideline?
02:02If he doesn't get it right, yes.
02:05Listen, I've always said that.
02:09I say, we can't sit up here and be mad at the player if the coach keeps putting him back
02:13on the field.
02:14Right.
02:15So if you're not doing it right, if you're not doing it how we teach you, then guess what?
02:19Somebody else needs to show you.
02:21You need to come sit down over here until you figure it out.
02:23Let's hit these phones.
02:24800-636-1067.
02:26800-636-1067.
02:29Let's go to Greg in D.C.
02:30Greg, you get to fix one thing for this commander's team.
02:33What is it?
02:35All right.
02:35I don't fix the tight end.
02:37Like, I don't like the tight end room.
02:39Like, I'm just saying that I don't call it before.
02:41Like, every other team in that field, they have an average tight end or a pass catcher tight end.
02:46And we don't even have that right now.
02:49You know what I'm saying?
02:49We got the draft.
02:50I'm telling you, Donald, three agents on Kig.
02:53I mean, he went out with a hamstring.
02:55But it's like, that's what we're missing.
02:56The offense is not violent.
02:57I know y'all talk about the receivers, the running backs, and the quarterback plays, and the line.
03:02But the tight end is violent of the offense.
03:05I believe so.
03:05I'm out.
03:06All right, man.
03:07It's a good call, man.
03:08I mean, through two games, the tight ends, Kig has two catches for 16 yards.
03:13Yankoff has one for 14.
03:15Bates has two for 13.
03:16And Senna has one for six.
03:18That's 30, 43, 49 yards on two, three, five, six catches.
03:25I mean, that is just not a lot of production from a position where these guys are on the field
03:30a lot in this offense.
03:32Maybe you get Kig back healthy?
03:34We'll see.
03:35Let's go to Red in Falls Church.
03:37What's up, Red?
03:39Hey, how you doing, J.P.?
03:40B-Mitch, man.
03:41Thanks for taking my call.
03:42What's up, brother?
03:43All right.
03:45I would have to say, Tandis, still, I don't know what happened to him.
03:50He looked good in the 24 season.
03:53I just don't know what happened to him.
03:55I can't say the whole secondary because they're picking on him.
03:59He's the one that's getting beat, to me.
04:02I see a lot of potential.
04:04I'm loving what I see with my team.
04:05And I think that we're just as good as every other team out there.
04:09We got beat by CeeDee Lamb, Pickens, Hurts, and one good run by Saquon Barkley.
04:16Other than that, I think everybody else looks pretty good.
04:20And, B-Mitch, I know you don't remember me, man, but I know Andy and Aidy Duncan and Brian Duncan.
04:25Man, I met you some years ago, brother.
04:26But, anyway, thanks for taking my call.
04:32Thanks, bud.
04:33Appreciate the time.
04:34I love that kind of call where it's like, man, I feel good.
04:38I don't know really how, but that's great.
04:40Like, if you remain confident in this team, if they somehow beat Seattle and then you're going to London to
04:46play the Colts,
04:48everyone's going to feel way different.
04:49I don't know that they will.
04:50I think it's a tall, tall order.
04:52But everyone will feel it.
04:53A-B Seattle, bruh.
04:56I might have to not – I may have to get off some of the calls because some of them
05:00are going to kill me too.
05:01Byron is in San Antonio.
05:03What's up, Byron?
05:05What's going on, John?
05:06How y'all doing?
05:07We're good, man.
05:07How are you?
05:09Too blessed to be stressed.
05:11Yeah.
05:12My deal, I think Mikey needs to go back to the slot.
05:15That's what we drafted in the field is a slot corner.
05:20But, I mean, you're a pro.
05:21You got to be on the outside.
05:23You got to play what you do.
05:24I think we need to change our routes up.
05:26I think we should run quicker and shorter routes so the quarterback can get the ball out of his hands.
05:32Marcus tends to hold on to the ball longer than Gaten does.
05:35He does.
05:35So, I mean, you need to get rid of the ball or we're going to see A.K. in the
05:42game very shortly because, you know, he only a pluck away for him being out as well.
05:47So, run the ball, short passes, and blitz.
05:51Blitz a lot.
05:52Let's see who their third-string quarterback is.
05:55Y'all have a good one.
05:56All right, man.
05:56Appreciate you, man.
06:01I mean –
06:02I mean, listen, you can't completely change up what you do because that's what you've been practicing.
06:08And I know that they want the ball out of people's hands a little quicker and things of that nature.
06:15Speed up the read process.
06:17You know, if they're running the same plays and one guy is getting out as quick as hell, the other
06:23guy got to be able to do the same thing.
06:25Because if I change it to all-sharp routes, you know what a DB will have to do?
06:29Jump it.
06:32Totally.
06:33I think, you know, Blau is learning on the fly here, and now he's got to learn.
06:39I mean, they built this offense kind of for Jaden, and not that Marcus and Jaden aren't similar players, but
06:43they're not the same.
06:44And now it's going to be an issue.
06:46Let's go to LB in Baltimore.
06:48What's up, man?
06:50J.P., you missed.
06:51You're the best duo in sports.
06:53Appreciate you.
06:55I appreciate both of you because you're honest and you don't kid around with stuff.
07:00I've got a question for the future Hall of Famer.
07:02See, Mitch, I always go to the root.
07:05I'm a root guy.
07:05I go to the root of everything, which starts in offseason to preseason to regular season.
07:11And if the coaches and the staff and the scouts and all this kind of stuff is going on, if
07:17they've got good eyes and keen eyes and you're building this roster, if a McClellan goes down or a Cognito,
07:24whoever, you know, anybody goes down, you shouldn't have a drop-off.
07:28If the Tungle is a 10, your backup can't be a 4.
07:32If McClellan is a 10 and your backup can't be a 3.
07:36And so with your roster, you've got nobody on the practice squad.
07:40You've got nobody on the backup.
07:41And the drop-offs are so far that when we lose somebody, it's just panic.
07:45The Rams had two of McClellan.
07:48What's the?
07:49McClellan.
07:50Kuka McClellan.
07:51Kuka McClellan.
07:52Yeah.
07:52He can go out.
07:53They can put the backup guy in.
07:54And they just keep on rolling.
07:56And so we're not built that way if somebody goes down and we can just pop in the backup or
08:01go to the practice squad and move a guy up.
08:03And it's like a backup drop from a 10 to like a 7 or an 8.
08:06We don't have that kind of team built.
08:09And lastly, I would just say real quick, I'm from the Redskins era.
08:13You know, Druskrim, you know, Art Monk, you know, Carr, you, all those guys.
08:21And so if B-Mits was out of the game with an ankle, they put somebody in.
08:25You know, we didn't have this drop-off from B-Mits from a 10 to a 2 or something.
08:31You know, the team kept rolling.
08:33And even though we didn't make the Super Bowl every year, we were always, like, you know, into the playoffs,
08:37into the playoffs.
08:38We were just, we were consistent and steady as a team.
08:41Yeah.
08:41So to me, at the root, we're not built to take a hit and stuff like that because if we
08:46lose a starter, we go from a 10 starter to a 2 practice squad guy or a 2 backup guy.
08:51And that's not the way to get it done.
08:54I mean, you're not wrong.
08:56But the thing of it is, different from when we were playing to now, the starters make so much money
09:03and then you've got to get in where you fit in later.
09:05And I think right now, this team came in in year one, they say we're going to build.
09:13They got close.
09:14Year two, they say we're going to go for it.
09:16They still in the rebuilding.
09:18This is the second year, basically, of their rebuilding process.
09:21And you need to, and I'll be, and we've all stated it, they didn't hit on some of those draft
09:27picks.
09:28Okay?
09:28You want to hit on draft picks, have veteran players, so when the veteran players get old, the other guys
09:33move in.
09:34But they haven't had the time to build it like those other teams have right now.
09:37And the Rams, the Rams just get veteran players all the time.
09:41So their backups are experienced as hell.
09:43I mean, having Devontae Adams.
09:45Yeah.
09:46Devontae, and I watched Devontae that night.
09:48Devontae can't run like he used to run.
09:51But he gets open like hell, dude.
09:54When he caught that ball down in the middle and started running, I'm like, God, he's running in quicksand.
09:59Let's hit George and Chantilly.
10:01What's up, George?
10:02How you doing, man?
10:02Hey, guys.
10:03Hey, guys.
10:04How are y'all doing today?
10:05Good, buddy.
10:06Hey, man.
10:07All I wanted to say is, you know, I feel like I would want to fix the play calling.
10:12And as I was thinking, you've got to have a self-realization of who you have on the field.
10:18Like, you don't have your best quarterback and stuff anymore.
10:20So, for me, I've switched the playbook to eight yards or less.
10:24And I know you've probably got hundreds of plays that you could run that are eight yards or less.
10:29You've got to run a 10-yard fight.
10:31And what that's going to do is keep that other offense off the field because if they're going to be
10:35explosive, you don't want them out there, right?
10:37And it's going to give your defense a chance to rest.
10:40For them to confide in coaches and things like that, if JP is used to scoring two touchdowns per quarter,
10:45if I can hold them to one and get three here and three there, I think it puts you in
10:50a good spot at the end of the game to be close enough to maybe grab something and flip a
10:55page in that playbook.
10:56And just like B. Mitch was saying, yeah, it's going to draw the defense up.
11:00And there's your over-the-top.
11:02And I'm not talking about 20 over-the-top.
11:04Maybe an eight over-the-top or a nine over-the-top.
11:06And somebody can run for four yards and take the air out of the building, make those fans go get
11:11beer and hot dogs and check their phones.
11:14And that's how I would do it.
11:16Thanks, guys.
11:17Thanks, dude.
11:19Commanders through two games, dead last in pass touchdowns, surrender.
11:25Dead last.
11:26Dead last.
11:26That tracks.
11:28Yeah.
11:29I mean, Hurts had three, two to Goddard, one to Wicks.
11:34Mm-hmm.
11:35And then Dak had three.
11:37Yep.
11:37Dak had four.
11:39Yeah, all of them went in the red zone already.
11:41Yeah, but I'm just saying pass touchdowns.
11:43Yeah.
11:43Dak had four because it was two to Lamb, two to Ferguson.
11:46Yeah.
11:46Dude, another thing as we're talking about what we'd fix is the situation with these tight ends in the red
11:51zone is completely out of control.
11:53Let's go to Scott in Baltimore.
11:55What's up, Scott?
11:57Hey, gentlemen.
11:58Our first-time call are usually junks, but I work out in the morning, daughter to school.
12:02D-Mitch, real quick, 20-some years ago, I met you at the Ghost Bar.
12:06And I was a diehard Redskins fan, and you said, stay gold, Ponyboy.
12:10Stay with me forever.
12:11And I'm also the friend from Philly, so I used to come watch play you up there.
12:14All right.
12:16So, anyway, you know me if you see me around town.
12:19But anyway, great.
12:19He actually said, stay golden, Ponyboy.
12:21That does not sound like Brian.
12:23You told me like the outsider, sir.
12:25You said, because I grew up on 51.
12:28I grew up with the diehards.
12:30And I just said, that was there with my wife at the time, dating her.
12:33And you said about the team, stay gold, Ponyboy.
12:37All right.
12:38I like it.
12:38What would you fix, dude?
12:39Yeah, I like it a lot.
12:40Anyway, I like what you represent.
12:42One quick thing, as our friend at DOC would say, the construction of the team making the
12:46sausage, that's for next year.
12:47We need more secondary.
12:48But what could we fix?
12:49The last caller was right, but he needs to take it to one more level.
12:53My dad and I go to every game.
12:54We're going to be there.
12:55I think we're going to beat Seattle.
12:56But you've got to go to such a short passing game.
13:00It's to Mahomes.
13:01You watch Andy Reid and Mahomes.
13:03I mean, not exactly a lightweight.
13:05Patrick Mahomes.
13:06He throws so many short passes.
13:08My point is, we have too many weapons.
13:10They can't stop us if we commit to that short passing game.
13:14And by the way, digs his money.
13:16And he's the other guy that's at 24-20.
13:18I'm going to go 27-23.
13:23We win our home opener.
13:25And you guys have an awesome day.
13:26All right, man.
13:27Appreciate you.
13:27Thanks, bud.
13:27Appreciate you, man.
13:30I love the optimism there.
13:32If that dude is confident that they win, you should bet that.
13:38Like, I mean, there is money to be made on this.
13:42If you are willing to mess around, like, the money line on this thing is plus 250,
13:47plus 265.
13:49Like, if you really think they pull out this upset, put 20 bucks on that.
13:53That's two and a half to one, roughly, or maybe more.
13:57Jeff, I'm curious if you could fix any one thing.
13:59What would you want to fix?
14:01Jaden's elbow.
14:04That's all.
14:04That's all I want.
14:05I wish his joint could just somehow retract, like, back regular and that the quarterback
14:12can be on the field.
14:13But in all seriousness, bro, it is crazy that this entire city is living and dying with Jaden's
14:21non-throwing elbow.
14:22Like, it's just so crazy on the scope of all things that could happen.
14:27The fact that we're now dealing with this elbow thing like a second or third time, depending
14:32how you view it, is just crazy.
14:34JP, I know you played sports before, but have your best player ever got hurt?
14:39Yeah.
14:41The pain right there.
14:42I know you felt it.
14:43And I'm not saying that the season is over or anything, but it's just that pain of, wow,
14:47I can't believe I just watched him in pain and agony like that.
14:52That's what messed up the area.
14:54You know, seeing him last year, seeing how it went.
14:57Man, even Tom Brady cursed.
14:58But that's what's really messing up the area.
15:00But, man, I wish we could just fix Mikey.
15:04Tom cursed all the time.
15:05I wish we could fix Mikey, too.
15:06Like, I don't know where the aliens came from that made him touch that football and take
15:11all his powers away, but I wish they could come back.
15:14Like the Monstars rolled through.
15:15Yeah, it's like, we need to take Mikey and just let him, we just got to build his confidence
15:21back up.
15:21Because B said it before.
15:22That's what I think it is.
15:23I think it's just he's not confident, man.
15:26And when you're not confident, you do not make plays.
15:29Well, and if you're not confident, and then you go to Dallas, and it's CeeDee Lamb, and
15:33now you're coming home, and it's Jackson Smith and Jigba.
15:36Like, it's just.
15:37It's not even just that, JP.
15:39Even on the game.
15:40Even on Madden.
15:41Mikey is free range on that thing.
15:44Because, you know, they update the stats.
15:45We do it.
15:46Free range on that.
15:47What does that mean?
15:48Meaning.
15:49They cooking him on Madden.
15:50Yeah.
15:51He's even getting dusted.
15:53Like, what's his Madden rating now?
15:55I don't even remember, but I just know yesterday, a guy threw the ball up, and they were making
15:59Mike.
15:59He looked so weak on that game yesterday.
16:02Yikes.
16:03Let's go to Logan in North Carolina.
16:04What's up, Logan?
16:06Hey, what's up, guys?
16:07Big listener listening every morning down here.
16:09Appreciate you, man.
16:10My main thing is, I would change the defense.
16:13The reason why I say that is, when you look across the league with scenarios like similar
16:17to this, let's take Seattle, for example, right?
16:21Quarterback goes down.
16:22They only need to score 13 to win in week one.
16:25Week two against Arizona for Seattle.
16:28I think it was a 31-7 ball game.
16:30I mean, Locke could have gone in there and put up 13 points, and they would have won that
16:33game.
16:33So, I just think a better defense gives you a chance in the league, in these games, that
16:39you have a second string going.
16:42Yeah, man.
16:43There you go.
16:44Good call.
16:44Appreciate you listening down to Carolina.
16:46Let's round this out, my guy.
16:47The Ravens offense didn't score in, what was it, 22,000.
16:52They went to a Super Bowl and won it.
16:53That defense is so good.
16:54The defense was offscoring the damn offense.
16:56Let's go to Nick down in Welcome, Maryland.
16:58What's up, Nick?
16:59Hey, gentlemen.
17:00I think that it's definitely my wishes for Jaden to have wings.
17:05Get out of the hole one needs to.
17:06Basically, I would like to see our team, every time we've gotten in a situation, their score
17:13has dictated the way we were playing.
17:15And D. Mitch explains all the time now, when you're up, you're doing better, you can do
17:19what you want.
17:19So, it seems to me, we were in every game.
17:22Guys, my fault, fellas.
17:24I believe that this team, it was so fun watching him play again, guys.
17:28It was so fun.
17:29It was like going back two years.
17:31And if he can stay healthy, man, this is the most action-packed team in football.
17:36It's got to be him.
17:38I like the tight end situation.
17:39It would be better.
17:41I'm a big fan of John Bates, but he's got to...
17:48If you're going to be able to stay healthy, being it, is it going to happen?
17:51I mean, I'm out, guys.
17:53All right, man.
17:53Appreciate the call, Nick.
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