00:00B, we're having this conversation kind of about the shifting, I don't know,
00:07mood or tenor of folks discussing this organization, I would say.
00:13And what do you think caused that?
00:20Because coming out of Detroit, it wasn't what it is now.
00:25Maybe it was the lingering Allegretti injury.
00:27Well, let's be real.
00:30So it started off as soon as Thompson went down.
00:33And then Allegretti hadn't been practicing.
00:36You saw how good Jones was playing.
00:38So they're going to start, and everybody knows the key to this season,
00:44keeping Jayden up right.
00:46If you start seeing the people that are supposed to keep him up right not being there
00:50and things going wrong, you immediately start thinking, okay, things can go wrong.
00:55As we stated before, last year, when they scored so many points on the other side against the defense,
01:00now you've got to go out there and try to be a superhero, and then you put yourself in harm's
01:04way,
01:04things start to happen.
01:05So now people look at it and they go, oh, damn, look what's going on.
01:09So they automatically, it's an assumption thing, you know?
01:13And I think the ultimate thing is it could go their way, or he may go completely against it.
01:20But I, and I think a lot of, not a lot, certain fans, you've got to keep, you've got to
01:27stay,
01:28you saw what you saw, you believe what you believe based off of the things they did.
01:32If that stuff is right, I think they're going to fool, they're going to, not fool,
01:37they're going to shock some damn people.
01:39Now, as I was talking to some people, I did two radio shows, one last night and one today.
01:44Where?
01:46Ryan Rippon, well, he has a podcast.
01:49Baltimore.
01:49Cal Son.
01:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:50And then I did some of the Mad Dog.
01:52I forgot the kid name, he used to be here in the town, and I did shows with him at
01:55one point.
01:57And their thing is like, you know, well, that team, I said, bro, listen, I said,
02:04y'all act like Washington dealing with a problem that no other team is dealing with.
02:06But if your starting quarterback get hurt, and your people protecting them get hurt,
02:11and your defense can't stop nobody, your team's going to suck.
02:15Point blank.
02:16That's not a Washington thing.
02:17That's anybody going around this whole damn country.
02:20And they're like, oh, yeah, but what if, I say, I don't care if it's Sam Donald,
02:24I don't care if it's Matt Stafford, if any one of these quarterbacks around here
02:28that's supposed to be leading the contenders get hurt, and the defense starts giving up points,
02:32they're going to suck.
02:34Right.
02:34You know, I say, we've got to stop making it seem like it's just a Jaden Daniels thing,
02:38you know, or whatever.
02:40Baltimore, when Lamar got hurt, they didn't play well.
02:43You know, I just think that people want to push it on to, like, it's only in Washington.
02:48This is something that goes on, you say it all the time, every team.
02:51Cincinnati.
02:52If this happens, you're going to have problems.
02:54Do you know who the backup is in Dallas?
02:57Yeah.
02:58Who?
02:58The kid that was here.
03:00Sam Howell.
03:00Yeah.
03:01Like, if that, everybody's, the excitement surrounding Dallas is a probably.
03:05If something happened to that, they're in trouble.
03:08Right.
03:09Let's be real.
03:11I mean, if you want to argue that perhaps Jaden's more susceptible to injury,
03:15people are going to make that argument.
03:16I'm not sure it's accurate.
03:18Year one, that didn't happen.
03:20Year two, it did.
03:22You got quarterbacks get hurt all over the league.
03:24Like, what happens to the Rams if Matt Stafford goes down?
03:27Like, the little dude they got there from Simpson, that's his name?
03:31Yeah, Ty Simpson.
03:32He ain't going to be the same.
03:33Believe me.
03:35The tonsil injury is real, and that's going to impact depth.
03:39Now, they've moved on, right?
03:40Like, it's, that event has occurred.
03:43They've moved Brandon Coleman over.
03:44Now, you have depth, you lose depth.
03:48They have added a couple of tackles.
03:51I think the DJ Humphrey move helps a lot.
03:53I think there's a lot of concern over, to me, there's two different things with Allegretti.
03:59If you are concerned that he dealt with this calf strain for a month, and now,
04:06so we actually got to talk to Allegretti yesterday in the locker room.
04:09He said he's now wearing sleeves on calves just to try to prevent anything else from happening.
04:15If you are concerned that your starting center dealt with an injury all of August,
04:20and you don't like the depth at center, I can understand that.
04:23I wrap my brain around that.
04:25If your concern is you don't think Allegretti can get it done,
04:29the organization disagrees with you.
04:31They very much do.
04:32Talking with players off record that I know and trust,
04:36they very much think Nick can get the job done.
04:39So I am not on the, like, to me with Allegretti, there's the concern over the injury,
04:46which is real and occurred.
04:47That's fair.
04:48That's valid.
04:49Totally.
04:49The can this dude get it done, I don't know, I've never seen it, is not a place I land.
04:55No.
04:55But that's another reason I'm excited for the games to start.
04:58Yep.
04:58Because the thing about Allegretti that I love, he's already proven he plays injured.
05:05He'll gut through it.
05:07They did that when he went to the Super Bowl in Kansas City.
05:10A lot of people can't play like that.
05:11A lot of people get a Nick and they can't play.
05:13He can play like that.
05:15Now, I want to see him on the field.
05:18I want to see him stay on the field.
05:19You know, so by putting a little sleeve on both legs to try to stop or try to be proactive
05:27on the other side, cool.
05:29Let's go with it.
05:30But the ultimate thing is once the games start, we don't know.
05:34Let's be real.
05:35If they had gone through preseason and won every game, I'd be concerned more.
05:39Because every time a team went all in preseason, they're going to get their ass kicked during the season.
05:41That's what I've been noticing.
05:42But if they were to go out there and were playing well, we still don't know how well they're going
05:48to play when the season starts.
05:49Yeah, dude.
05:50Like, I have been super clear on this for multiple years.
05:55I do not care about preseason game results.
05:58I do not.
05:58Period.
06:00It was appalling how flat they looked in the Ravens finale.
06:04But that's a...
06:05And I say it as much.
06:08Consistently.
06:08I care far more about the joint practice against the Ravens.
06:12But how much can you take from that when the O-line against Philly is going to look very different?
06:20I don't know.
06:21I don't know those answers.
06:23And I think one thing that is maybe not talked about, forgotten, I don't know the right term.
06:31But, like, I think defensively they're going to be way better.
06:35Yeah.
06:36I think they've overhauled that group.
06:37I think it's going to look quite different.
06:39I totally believe that.
06:40So, I think that needs to be part of kind of the math here.
06:46You know what I'm saying?
06:48I'm not sure it is properly.
06:51I do want to remind everybody, if you want to, you can ask Adam Peters your own questions.
06:56Tomorrow night, Thursday night, Arlington Drafthouse.
06:59Grant and Danny doing a dinner...
07:01Not a dinner.
07:02Interview.
07:03I'm going to give you a conversation with Adam Peters.
07:06And I do believe they're going to open the mic up for fans to ask questions.
07:09Hopefully, people can be respectful.
07:11But you can ask a question.
07:12Yeah.
07:12You can ask, hey, why did you decide to go this route at center?
07:16Let's be real, Jay.
07:18People like to be asses.
07:22When they don't see you, they don't think you can see them.
07:26When they're in your face, they're the nicest people in the world.
07:29You know how many people have called into this station and do stuff?
07:32Over the years I've been doing radio, since 1991.
07:36People have called into the station and said all kinds of stuff.
07:38And then I meet the same person.
07:39I'm like, doesn't this voice sound for me?
07:41Then they say their name, you know it's the same person.
07:44Nicest person in the world.
07:45Because they know you're in their damn face.
07:47They're not going to be stupid then.
07:49And ain't nobody going to go out there and be stupid.
07:51Unless they come in there, you know, feeling good.
07:55I would assume Arlington Drafthouse does sell beer.
07:58They sell beer?
08:01Adam, I want to guess something before you start asking questions.
08:03We're actually going to be giving away a pair of tickets to the event in about 10 minutes.
08:10So get ready on the phones for that.
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