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Commanders GM Adam Peters opens up about the tough roster decisions and injury chaos ahead of Sunday's crucial NFC East battle. How is Washington navigating a depleted offense with everything on the line?
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00:00joining us right now as he does every friday at this time it's general manager of the watching
00:04commanders adam peters good morning adam what's up guys how's it going so we were just talking
00:10about the nfc east with the cowboys losing if you guys can get a win there's going to be kind
00:17of a
00:18glut of teams all within a game of each other yeah you guys are right man it's wide open and
00:24obviously we got to handle our business but it is wide open he saw that and i think you know
00:29this is
00:29one of those divisions that is going to go down right to the end and and um so you know
00:34like you
00:35said if we get this win on sunday we're right back in it but we got to handle our business
00:38are you
00:39surprised by anything in the nfl anymore were you surprised that dallas lost the game last night
00:45no you really can't like i mean it's a cliche but the week-to-week league in nfl i mean
00:50you never
00:51know what's going on and and really the margins are so thin um even between a team that hasn't
00:56won a game and a team that that has done you know dallas is two and two but just even
01:01a four
01:02and oh team you know if you don't come ready to play every time uh you can get humbled really
01:08quickly and um you know that's that's every every week every year in this league adam i'm going to
01:13guess much like when jayden went out in the dallas game that there might have been some expletives
01:19flying in london when marcus went down with the injury early in the game against the colts i mean
01:25are you just seeing that and you're just like i can't believe the the way you know about our
01:30luck the injuries are hitting us at the quarterback spot at the most important spot
01:35yeah you know you never you know you never think you're going to be on your third string
01:39quarterback in week four but um you know that's that's why you prepare for these things and we
01:44really you know marcus we think is the best backup and then athan's got a lot of um you know
01:49a lot
01:50of promise but you know he's a seventh round rookie so you're going to come with some lumps on
01:53that but yeah it is it's frustrating and you know you're kind of in disbelief but you got to keep
01:59playing and i think he settled in a little bit after after the beginning but yeah we got to keep
02:04playing we got to find a way to win those games regardless of what happens nobody's going to care
02:08about your injuries how many injuries you got and all that you just got to find a way to win
02:12from
02:13watching ak i thought when he had time when the pass rush wasn't in on him i thought he showed
02:18some
02:19good things what did you think yeah i agree completely he's uh he's a guy who's shown that
02:25really you know he showed it in college and he's shown that throughout camp he's really fearless you
02:29know you guys saw it probably on the broadcast but you know he's around there smiling and joking on the
02:34sidelines like the moment's never too big for him you know and he's got a big arm he's he's not
02:40afraid to
02:41throw it deep he'll stay in there and take a hit and he took a few and a lot of
02:45those were on him but
02:46um you know he's tough and he's only going to get better and i think you know unfortunately it was
02:52in a loss but i think he learned a lot in that game and i think that'll really help him
02:56for the
02:56next time he comes out in terms of you know the things he can get better at the things he
03:00can
03:00identify and and make sure and not try to force things like the interception so it was a learning
03:06lesson you like to learn lessons and wins but uh nonetheless i think he got better and and
03:11really promising uh it was promising start for him joined by adam peters commanders gm
03:16so take us into the decision making process let's start with last week and then we'll get
03:20to this week so last week you know that jayden is not going to play he's not available marcus is
03:27the
03:27starter ak is the backup colston yankoff is the emergency quarterback why not sam hartman there
03:34and then let's look ahead to this week what is likely to happen well hold on yankoff yankoff is
03:40because hartman's not elevated to the 53 he has to be at least elevated to the 53 right can you
03:46explain that all to us yeah it's hard to explain you guys are on it which is really impressive
03:53actually but yeah yeah sam even um even if we uh just elevated him as a practice squad elevation he
04:01still wouldn't be able to play we'd actually have to sign him to the 53 and cut another player
04:06for him to be eligible to be the third emergency quarterback so that's kind of a loophole in the
04:13league you can't just elevate him as a practice squad elevation and and suit him up so uh that's
04:19what would have to happen um you know obviously it is a lot of teams that go into games with
04:24two
04:25quarterbacks we're a team that for the most part goes in the game with with three quarterbacks with
04:29that third guy being the emergency guy and the emergency guy can only come in if the first two guys
04:35aren't unable to return to the game so that's how that all works so you know it's not uncommon to
04:42go
04:42into the game with two quarterbacks uh obviously you feel a little bit better with three quarterbacks
04:46i lived it the hardest way possible in the nfc championship game of san francisco yeah when we
04:52lost uh brock purdy and josh johnson then right then we had to have christian be the quarterback and
04:58then brock just handed off the rest of the game so you know that doesn't happen that often but when
05:03it
05:03does you know you're kind of up you know what's creek all right so let's look at this week you
05:09guys made a decision yesterday to waive katron allen is that a situation where he needed to open
05:15up another spot and what's likely to happen with katron yeah i think that that's a great question and i
05:22think the first thing to say is we're not down on katron at all we really like katron and and
05:26uh
05:26certainly you never want to release a guy it sucks to release a guy at any point in time um
05:32but
05:32certainly you know a guy who you like and who's just shown promise but really i think you know
05:38again this may sound like coach speech or gm speak but in every move you make you're trying to do
05:44whatever you can for the best of the team and to win the game and to have the best season
05:48possible
05:49and and for this week and for moving forward you know we we thought we have we have a lot
05:54of moves
05:54to make here in the next few days in terms of getting enough guys to get up and play this
05:58weekend and
05:59so uh that was really just a case of that trying to get the best guys out there to help
06:03us win the
06:03game but um with katron he's shown a lot of promise he's done a really nice job and you know
06:09we we run
06:10the risk we we expose him to waivers but if he doesn't get claimed we'd love to have him back
06:15on
06:15the practice squad see i think i think embedded in that and he didn't answer it yet but he kind
06:19of did
06:19because they got moves to come i think they are going to elevate hartman then they'll then he'll be
06:24this is my guess adam and then he'll be inactive but he'll be the emergency third because it is
06:29such an important game that you go wonderful like they can't be they can't have yankoff in i mean
06:34you know what i mean like you god forbid something happens to jayden and kind of like manis gets
06:38thrown around in there you just can't have your tight end in there with the season hanging on in
06:42balance right i don't think so guys we'll just have to find out saturday but uh don't ever
06:49underestimate the power of a great bruin in what you can do but no um you guys honestly we have
06:55a
06:55lot i mean you guys have seen the injury report we have a ton of moving parts there so nothing's
07:00in
07:00nothing's set in stone and and we'll sit down this afternoon and then tomorrow before we have to turn
07:05in those elevations and those roster moves before four o'clock tomorrow and and get and get the guys
07:10out there that we can get to go out and feel the team and win this game so let's look
07:14at the new
07:15york giants off to a three and one start obviously changed the head coach what has impressed you
07:20about this giants team and what should fans have to worry about when they look at this new york
07:24giants team on sunday yeah you're right three and one they've done a really nice job um they've won
07:31some some close games and they've done a good job finishing those games which you know that's this
07:36league you know when most of these games are going to be close and at some point and you got
07:41to make
07:41those plays to finish it off and uh so they're a tough they're a physical team they want to be
07:46physical on offense and and run the ball and run multiple tight ends and they got patrick ricard
07:52who's you know i mean we've had julian good jones being patrick ricard in practice this week just to
07:58simulate a guy with that type of a size so they're a physical tough team they're they're they're well
08:03coached obviously coach harbaugh has been a great coach for a long time um so they're well rounded
08:08and obviously they're playing with with uh backup quarterback but jamis is a good backup too so um
08:14you know they're going to come in here they're hungry they got a chance to you know kind of set
08:18themselves apart in the division too so they're going to be really motivated so um it's going to
08:23be a good tough nfc east matchup and and i'm guessing there's going to be some weather so it'll be
08:28one of
08:28those type of grinding out games it is concerning you were talking about the injuries adam but it's
08:34concerning that both the top receivers are are dinged up um now we don't know if terry's going
08:40to go i'm sure you know but you're not going to tell us if terry or stefan's going to go
08:43i would
08:44bet they're not going to go especially with the weather um is there anything you can tell us about
08:49those two guys heading into the weekend yeah i think you know with with both of those guys
08:54they're those guys are really really pushing to play they're both big time competitors and you know
09:00they'll they'll play and they'll play hurt if they can um you know and neither of them have
09:04practiced yet this week so you know we have today and then usually you know how it works is you
09:11know
09:11if a guy practices on a friday he's going to have a chance to play at least a chance if
09:15he doesn't
09:16there's there's a lot less likely of a chance so both of those guys are going to push to practice
09:20today and we'll reassess after the practice to see you know where they're at but um you know it's
09:26touch and go for both of them and um you know i it's tough to not have those guys but
09:32you know
09:32we got we got a deep room there too so if we don't have them we got some other guys
09:37that can come in
09:37and make plays and if we do that'll help us even more uh what about eckler i was kind of
09:43surprised
09:44that you know given how quickly you signed him and he was out there that he showed wow man the
09:49guy
09:49didn't look like he just tore his achilles like pretty good i assume he was on a snap count can
09:54we see
09:54a little more extended opportunity potentially if the game plays you know the right way for eckler
09:59this week yeah you said it man like we you know we we knew what type of worker and what
10:06type of
10:06pro he was and and knew he was going to come back and be strong from that but that first
10:11day of
10:11practice in in london man he was at a different speed than everybody else and so we were like man
10:16we got to get this guy in the game so and you know he made some big plays and you
10:21can see that juice
10:22you know we always joke about fresh legs but i got fast anyway so um so yeah he helped us
10:28a lot
10:28in that game and i think like you guys said um you know another week of practice and and he
10:33had to be
10:33on a snap count last week you know you have to to do that to make sure you protect them
10:37from you know
10:38just overworking them and then soft tissue and type injuries um you know that's what you always
10:43want to do when you when you're just acclimating into into a game a week a season however that goes
10:49but he'll have more of an expanded role this week and then obviously it all depends on the game plan
10:55and how the game's going but that's that's the plan and he's going to be more of a kind of
10:59embedded in
11:00what we're doing have you been disappointed with the tight end room as a whole at least with our lack
11:05of offensive production and wow this would be a great weekend for chig to break out especially with
11:10the the health status of both terry and diggs yeah i think um i think i first say obviously we
11:17want
11:18more out of that room and those guys would be the first to say it um that that being said
11:22though
11:23um you know chig and jayden haven't played a ton together you know they had a really good training
11:27camp where you guys saw it out there where he was hitting chig on screens and down the field and
11:32catching runs and so they had a really good rapport and really they just haven't had a chance to play
11:37much together and so chig comes back last week uh jayden's not back uh chig's kind of just getting
11:43into it um and so they both had a really good week of practice this week so i think that
11:49that is
11:50going to improve as the year goes on provided those guys stay healthy which i think they will
11:54and um so i think you'll see an uptick and definitely in production out of that room but
11:59we do need more out of that room and those guys are good players that know that too and
12:03and they've been challenged and i think you'll see more i think we've all learned a lot about elbow
12:10dislocations and braces and how these things work and i'm pretty confident the way you guys got it
12:14going that he'll be okay but i do think there could be a situation maybe not unlike in minnesota last
12:20year where he gets thrown around like a rag doll like all these quarterbacks do i mean you still
12:24counting manis he's a pretty big kid they're just throwing him around like he's nothing where he goes
12:28down he hits the elbow and he pounds the turf because it does hurt for a little bit or does
12:34he still
12:34have that leeway though where he could pound the turf and we don't have to blue ten him and then
12:38not see
12:38him for a month like it's okay for it to hurt a little bit and then maybe sit out of
12:42play and
12:42come back out though right yeah i think you know that they've done a really good job with the brace
12:50and and fitting the right brace and and getting the exact one for him and his arm uh it's a
12:55really
12:55substantial one and one that's gonna protect him as much as it possibly can there's always i mean
13:01there's always risk in football though and and you know you're always you know even with a brace
13:06that's very substantial and as good as it can be you know there's there's a chance there's going
13:10to be a free type hit and that's you know that that's the you know you always have that with
13:15any player whether they're wearing an elbow brace or not so you know we're we're trying to avoid and
13:20james can do everything he can to avoid those types of situations and and um but yeah i think nothing's
13:27what was your worst injury as a player oh man i didn't get out on the field enough to get
13:32really
13:32hurt but um but uh i mean yeah i had a few concussions a high ankle sprain was probably
13:39the worst i never had to have any surgeries luckily for me but high ankle sprain which
13:44still kind of messes up with my ankle today but uh quite a few concussions for sure that's why uh
13:50that's why i sound kind of dumb sometimes i know uh wikipedia can be very inaccurate so i want
13:55to read the sentence and you can you can react to it so if you go to adam peter's wikipedia
14:00page it
14:01has a little bit about your playing career at ucla and then it says peter's decided to stop playing
14:06football midway through his time at ucla believing that he had no future as a player as teammates like
14:12deshaun foster were bigger stronger faster and better than him well i didn't decide to stop playing but
14:19i did believe i had no future because those guys are being strong no i finished my i finished my
14:24whole career yeah so it's inaccurate it's inaccurate it's definitely 100 inaccurate when you
14:31100 but very inaccurate when you when you started playing like big time college football was there
14:36anybody in the locker room like that you were just in awe of like physique athleticism whatever
14:42yeah i i have like two one welcome to college and one welcome to the nfl but in college there's
14:48this
14:48guy kenyon coleman and he was just built different than everybody i mean he he's like a greek god like
14:54six five like 270 shredded and i walked in i was like man this is no this doesn't look like
15:00high school
15:00or junior college anymore and he's like benching 500 for for reps and i'm like jeez i got a long
15:06way to go
15:06here and then uh when i got to the nfl that guy was william mcginnis and i walked into the
15:13patriots lock for a paycheck for him actually that's back when we had paychecks and he had to
15:18go to the bank and stuff it was and so and i had to deliver it to him and it
15:22was the biggest paycheck
15:23i've ever seen and probably still will ever seen in my life as a massive paycheck it's like
15:27about 600 grand or something that's crazy i was like but i walked in and he had he has like
15:33his shirt
15:34off he just had a towel on and and man he looked i mean he's he's another guy who's like
15:39six six
15:40270 even more shredded and i was like looking up that i'm like a little kid like that mean joe
15:46green
15:46commercial and i was like oh my gosh hand him like shaking hand handing him the check and i just
15:51like
15:51ran out of there but um yeah these guys are built a little different than than what i am unfortunately
15:57hey last question for you adam um nick cross i assume you know i know you got another practice
16:03whatever still got a couple days but he's trending in a direction like we could probably expect him to
16:07be ready to go yeah nick's next guy who's been practicing all week and he's just ultimately with
16:14his injury it's got to be a doctor clearance so uh if he doesn't get cleared by the doctors he
16:19won't
16:19be able to play if he doesn't he'll be able to play i know he's another guy who's itching to
16:23play
16:23and he can help us a lot when he's out there so we'll have final final clearance on that and
16:28but
16:29that'll be the deciding factor um because he's out there and he wants to play yeah adam don't
16:33bring your best suit on sunday it's gonna rain a lot maybe maybe bring a poncho okay so suit up
16:39i mean poncho yeah he'll be a five dollar poncho out front yeah yeah but it's usually outside like
16:44before yeah of course he's indoors yeah you could stay inside maybe grab an extra bagel or something
16:51all right bring home a w all right guys will do all right peter's commanders gm here on the jump
16:58you