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The Sports Junkies — Washington's Day Two Targets. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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2:01800-636-1067 is the number. When you look down at your phone later today and you see that update that the commander signed blank. What do you want that name to be? Who's your godkicks? Who's your godkicks? I've got a guy because this market is trying up quickly and I feel like this team really needs tight end help. I wanted to say the commanders have reached agreement with former Cleveland Brown, David and Joku. I don't hate that. I don't hate that. You're wearing burgundy and gold, David and Joku. You can catch touchdowns, which I don't know if any of the other tight ends that are currently on the roster are qualified to do. That is the guy I want because they've been getting snatched up. Isaiah likely is gone. K-Dotten resigns with Tampa. There aren't that many pretty solid names left. There's in Joku. There's John who Smith. There's Dallas Goddard. He would be a decent guy. That's the guy I'm going for. You know what? Because I upgrade. He's 31. So he's a little bit older, but in Joku's about the same age.
3:03Now he's 31 and you're taking somebody from the division. That's true. And he had 11 touchdowns last season. I feel like his touchdowns were a little artificial because he had one hurts just was laser focused on him like inside the five yard line. I feel like that was a little bit fluky. I don't think that's going to be something that's sticky with him, but if you can't get in Joku, Goddard would be a good good consolation in my opinion. Well, I think that's fair. The year before he had two touchdowns. See before that he had three. So 11 it was his entire year, right? But he's pretty much kind of a 50 to 60 catch guy. If you don't get every season. If you don't get either of those two guys, then there's a steep drop off. Then you've got guys like Taisam Hill, Will Dissley, Foster Merot, Tyler Conklin. Like, well, Chiggs in there. Chiggs in there as well. Some people seem high on. I've seen him well on the list. He's a top 50. I would take him to some of those other names. They don't do anything. Why answer what kind of depend on where they're targeting in the draft?
4:04I wish I knew. But not knowing that I'm going after brisker from the Bears at safety because I just think they need more help. They went out and got a corner or third corner. But I mean, last year they had Will Harris and Jeremy Reeves as started in safeties. I think they didn't upgrade there. Sorry, just do. I would go after brisker. I'd like to be at par city today. Watching everybody try to hole out and hit bombs. And I'd be thrilled to look down at my phone. And it says the commanders have signed a three-year deal or whatever, Romeo dobs. Ah, like that too. That would excite me. That'd be a legit number two receiver. I'd say we've got three offensive players so far. We've got Enjoku Goddard manning this high-end spot and dobs at wide receiver who I'm still surprised lasted in today too. And Jason would go defense with brisker coming over from the Bears. 800, 636, 1067. What's the name you want to hear for the first move for Adam Peters
5:08in day two of free. Who's the next best center that's available? If litter bomb got 27 million way above everybody else, you get the second best guy that's available. Give him, I don't know, 13 or something. Um, Elton Jenkins just got released by the Packers. Yeah. He's a seven-year veteran. It sounds like his market value is going to be 15-ish million. I might be able to get a starting center for. That might be a good value. Basically half of what litter bombs make. I think that might be a really good idea. So maybe that's, you know, a name that's out there. A few other names at the top of the center market. Lloyd Cushemberry and James Daniels, formerly of the age on those guys. Cushemberry is 28, as is Daniels. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of an older group. A lot of 28 to 30-year-olds in that center. Okay, I'm okay with that in the interior part of your line. And I think that's a reasonable price to pay. Sure. All right, 800, 636, 1067. A lot of big names off the board yesterday. Again, I'm going to be, I'm going to give them some grace.
6:08They seem like they went hard after peers. You didn't want them. Right. They went hard after litter bomb. He got 27 million for a center. And then they went hard after, uh, it was the third one. Phillips. I mean, that market got crazy. And like an honorable, no, mention name. I think Joanne Jennings would be a nice piece. And while I receive her, you know, if you miss on dobs, and you have to go down like half-tier or a tier. That'd be fine. I think that's a great bad pair of paternity. So who do you want? Is he better than Debo? Is Jennings better than Debo? I mean, he's a little bit different. He's not like the numbers. I wouldn't be, listen, if I looked down at my phone and they said, they resigned Debo. He's a possession guy. Two years and 24 million. I'd be like, let's go. I like Debo. Debo had 72 catches. I don't think Jennings had 72 catches. Well, he was injured for a good portion of the year too. I mean, and they, they've used the calf for in kittles. Thops at 55. I don't think Debo, he's in the same ballpark. Debo Samuel Slander is outrageous in this step. It's because he didn't live up to our expectations.
7:10When I was bringing up with the fact that they extended Laramie Tonsel, all you guys did was take your pants down and... Right. Because the assumption is Debo's gone. I knew Tonsel was coming back. So you'd be, you'd be overjoyed if Debo got brought back. I'm not saying I would be overjoyed. Tonsel resigned. But you're like, you don't understand Kate's expected. The Tonsel thing was a given in my mind. So maybe I'm wrong, but in my mind it was a guarantee he was coming back. Debo, I assume, is gone. So I assume he's gone. Unless the market for him just craters. Right. If they could get him back at a reasonable price, I would be happy. I think he's very productive. He's not fair. He's not fair. Nobody's going to be overjoyed if they signed Debo. But nobody's going to be overjoyed if they signed Joanne Jennings or Romeo Dobbs. You're going to be overjoyed to use the term you threw out there. No, but it's a need and you would be happy with it. It's an upgrade. Everybody is good and not better than both of these guys. I mean, Joanne Jennings has a good receiver. He can catch. He's a big guy. So, Debo, I'm going to give the edge to Dobbs. He's not the red zone threat that Jennings is.
8:15You're going to use him differently than you would use Jennings. I understand. But Debo is an energy guy. He's a better athlete. Debo is an energy guy. I think people just feed him. If you know Debo is going to go somewhere else, then Jennings, I think, would be fine. All right. Let's go to Mark. Who? I mean, the most touchdowns Jennings gave you. It was this year with nine touchdowns. It's great. Besides that, six, one, one, five. Right. Well, yeah, but they don't, I mean, they had Iyuk and they had Debo and the kiddo named McCaffrey. I mean, he's not a number one guy. If they said Jennings, I'm happy. I'm, I'm going to be happy. They said Jennings or Dobbs. I'm happy. Unless they're still saying I'd be happy with Debo. Unless they're targeting Colonel Tate at seven. Which I think they might be. And I actually think they're going to sign Iyuk. By the way, it's. Convince of it. SpotTrack is predicting Jennings' market value to be 22 plus per season. Dobbs, they only have it 12. I think Dobbs is going to get paid more than that. That's a steal. If you get Dobbs, 12 or 13 million. And then draft Tate or sign Iyuk,
9:15and then you have Sub Lane, who I think has potential. And McCaffrey kind of surprises before he got hurt. Let's go to Mark in Lago. Mark, what's up? Who's your day to guy today? When you're hanging out with us at par city and you look down at your phone, who do you want to see? I'm going to say times, if you get Jennings and Dobbs, they're not going to keep the dogs off of Adam Peters. Yeah, I can. All right, yeah, I don't want to get out of here. You're not a Peter's guy. No, because I don't think he treats the front the biggest toy in his franchise. Like it's supposed to be, you know, like he can't about it. I'm not. Why? You just got a lot of talent around this guy. You know, everybody and Jason, you know this. Everybody in the league, the teams in the league are laughing at him because he doesn't know what to do with all the talent around. The talent that he has in this quarterback, he doesn't put enough talent around this kid. That's why I don't like him. I think he's attempting to surround Jake.
10:16Thank you for the call. I think it's attempting to surround Jayden Daniels. It's also attempting to protect him. Like it's his number one thing he's trying to. It's malpractice if you have a rookie who's as good as Jayden Daniels on a rookie deal and you're not going to get him sufficient talent through the ball to. I mean, look, last year they went out and got Debo and tonsil to help protect them and Austin Eccler. Right. They attempted to put some talent around GD and McClure and that whole to contract thing was a nightmare. Right, they drafted a right tag on the first round. Yeah, they've also spent relatively high picks on McCaffrey and Jalen Lane, third and fourth round picks. Like he's dedicating draft capital to it as well. But I would agree with Mark, they have to upgrade and put some more guys around him. They definitely do. Especially if you let Debo go. And today is got to be the day. If they run it back with the same tight end room with the hope that, oh, Ben's in it, he just hasn't had the opportunity because he wasn't a Kingsbury guy. I don't know if you can go into the season with that sort of like
11:17hope banking on a guy that just hasn't done it yet. I don't think they're going to remember when Quinn was asked about Ben's in and I don't remember the exact phrasing. But he basically said he can do certain things but he hasn't done other things. Right. Well, I think the money quote was, he's got a long way to go. I think that was wild. That's what it was. We like him, but he's got a long way to go. Right, it was wild. Yeah, it was said not with that inflection. Oh, really? Yeah, you know what? Pull it up all year again. Those words were said. But it wasn't with that inflection. Like, we like him. But he's got a long way to go. It wasn't said like that. It wasn't said like that. I put inflection. Listen, we like him. He's got a long way to go. But we like him. I put inflection up because I have something called a personality. The David blouder. You know, but it wasn't. We love him. No, but it wasn't crashing him. You guys are making it seem like who's trashed. No, but it was acknowledgement. I think it was an acknowledgement that he's he's not a number one right now. That's fair. And so if you've if you've got nose accords and baits is mostly a blocker
12:20and Senate is a project still, you need a number one. That's all. I wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised if they think that they're going to they want to justify it. And they're going to put it on them. If they don't bring in another tie down today, I'm going to be personally devastated. It's okay if they do it tomorrow. Okay. Thank God I have like the progression of it. And I think there's a long way to go. But he, you know, I have a vision for him. Fitting a role into this offense. So I think, you know, he can excel at it. And I'm excited to get him in here and challenge him in different ways and and see if, you know, what we think and know about the man can can can come to life on the field. Long way to go at a roll. If you think that's a ringing endorsement, then it's not. It's not. I didn't think it was a ring, but I thought it was an endorsement. He's very monotone. You thought that was an endorsement of what? Indoor cement. I envision a role with him that I think could be a very minor role. Okay. Well, he's had a major role. Do you believe it's a major role?
13:20I think he's had a minor role. Do you believe it's a major role? It's not going to be a major. I don't know. I know. I'm in the ceiling. Do you believe when he said that he was envisioning a major role? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I can't answer questions because I don't know. I'm not allowed to know. Nobody knows. I don't know. But it's a speculative question. I think he has a larger role planned for him. Yes. How can he have a smile? How could he have a cut him? He got no role. He could say he sucks. We don't want to ever see him again. And we suck. He's not going to say that. Let me come on. I don't know. He's not going to have a major role. I think he's higher on him. And he knows he's not going to have a major role. You know that. I think he's capable. You guys will laugh at me. I think he's capable of catching 40 balls. I'll take the under right now. I'm not going to bet on it. But I think he's capable. The zebras did a lot more than that. They need more than 40 balls. Yeah. They need somebody who's going to catch close to 60. I'm not projecting. He's going to go from 70 to 70. I'm not in moron. Anyway, I know we're getting sidetracked with the Ben Sinnet talk.
14:21But I just think the Ben it shows they need an upgrade at tight end. Like you can't run it back with Sinnet, Yankoff, Bates, and think that's good enough. That's not a good enough group of tight ends. That's the name I need to hear today. I need to hear tight end sign. And you want to joke who I said gotter. Either one, you know what? I'd be fine with either one of them. Either one of them works. It could be chig. But their chig would work too. He'd be cheaper. But they're running out of good names on the tight ends. You want to hear Logan Paulson on a quanquo? A quanquo? Yes. But this dude's a maniac, man. And I love him. Like if you wanted a guy to fit this role for Washington, this is the guy. And if I can see it, every team in the NFL can see it. In terms of guys that I watched that fit this kind of move role, like it's him 100%. Like this is the one. So again, he's not the biggest guy, but in terms of routes, suddenness. Like he is vertically fast, man. He can attack the seam.
15:22He can stress you vertically in the defense. Like there's great stuff of him like trying to get rerouted, chop the arm down, get behind that second level defender inside the safety ball on target. Big play, right? He runs corners at a high level. He can stress you vertically from there. As a kind of choice angle route runner, there's a little bit of clunkiness to his feet. But he's explosive. They land him outside a receiver kind of at a tight split. He can run a backside dig, which is really tough to see. And the other thing is him after the catch. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. What if comparing car insurance rates was as easy as putting on your favorite podcast? With Progressive, it is. Just visit the Progressive website to quote with all the coverages you want. You'll see Progressive's direct rate, then their tool will provide options from other companies so you can compare. All you need to do is choose the rate and coverage you like. Quote today at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates. Comparison rates not available in all states or situations.
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17:24Call Dan Foley. He's the real deal. Man, I love how he attacks defenders, man. Just from a competitor standpoint, man, I think this is a heck of a football. I had no file on him at all, but then I went and watched a tape and I was like, this dude is a stud. Like, I want him to be a commander, so bad. But the thing I will say is that every team in the league has watched this film and they probably feel the same way. I mean, he has a market value according to a spot track of 8 million ish per season. Oh, that's a steal. That would make sense. The only guy with higher values in Joku. K dot K dot and got 30 minutes to get 10 million here. So maybe a conqueau is in that same ballpark. Right. Maybe a little bit cheaper, which would be great. All right, don't forget coming up in just about 40-ish minutes. Jay Gruden will join us. That's coming up at nine o'clock. We'll do EBS Entertainment page next when we come back. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy,
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